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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Prince J. Scott" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <princejayscott@ymail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:06:16 -0000
Subject: *********** UFI ORG UK - CHARITY PROJECT OF 3,500,000 GBP ***************

UNIVERSAL FUND INITIATIVE,UK.
306,RIMFORD ROAD
OPP. FOREST GATE POLICE STATION
LONDON,E78AA
UNITED KINGDOM.
TEL: +44 (0) 770 776 2183

ALLOTMENT NUMBER: UKBN2009101SNK

Universal Fund Investigation Unit is an international independent fund management outfit recognized by the
World bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to resolve major financial obligations of nations who have
subscribed to it's Multilateral Agreement Bond (MAB) and to suggest how best dormant funds could be
utilized in each particular year.

In the course of our duty, we have found large sums of unclaimed dividends amounting to several millions of
dollars in various countries of the world.

Our effort to locate the investors of these unclaimed equity and dividends have proved abortive,
largely due to the fact that most of the investors had died not knowing the worth of their investments and
not mentioning them to their folks.

We therefore suggested and received the approval of the World bank to invest these funds in categorized
countries for charity.

To achieve this, we sought the assistance of internet marketing firms who advertised and obtained for us
email subscriptions of individuals who would like to benefit from this charity disbursement for the purpose
of setting up charitable organizations.

These email addresses were used for our recent draw which is our 4th draw since the year 2008.

For us to pay you this money,we must be able to certify the following;

1.That you are honest,responsible and dedicated.

2.That you do not have any history of crime.

3. That you have human sympathy and willing to touch lives

Note that we do not monitor the operations of successful allotter's in the discharge of their charity works
as we have so many of these organizations in various countries of this world.

You must therefore see this as a solemn call to serve humanity and in particular the less privileged citizens
of your country.

Your allotment of £3,500,000.00 GBP is payable to you either through cashier's cheque or through International
swift transfer.

For further inquiries, get back to us through this email (princejayscott@ymail.com).

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. P. Jay Scott
(ALLOTMENT OFFICER.)

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