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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: "UN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info7875@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:07:56 -0300
Subject: Re: *** VERY IMPORTANT***

Congratulations Unpaid Beneficiaries

Due to the petitions received from the United States Governments, the general secretary to NATO sire Anders Fogh, from all over the continent in regards to the fraudulent activities going on mostly in the west-african sub-region with security agents and diplomats who have been delaying people's funds in their custody by means of demanding outrageous fees to get their consignments released to them.

The body of top officials and so many delegates have been having a meeting for the past 8 months which came to an end (TWO) days ago with the United states President and the former secretary general Mr. Ban Ki Moon.

However some deligates were assigned by the board at the meeting to streghten the Internet Securities of the listed below contries in the african sub-region (Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Egypt, Ghana, Benin etc).

The United states Police and the United Nations Anti- Crime commission have merged together to redeem the image and past wound of our dear citizes and foreign firms who were duped, defaruded, scammed and abandoned by so many internet impostors who indiscrimitately use the name of God, Ofices of the Governors, Presidency Banks etc. to bring down the the dignity of the listed countries to international communities.

We have been able to recover so much money from these scam artists amounting to almost $120'000'000.US The United Nation Anti-crime commission and the United State Government have ordered the money recovered from the Spammers to be shared among 100 Lucky people around the globe.

This email is being directed to you because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard disk in our custody here in Nigeria and with the information gathered from this Scam artist, we notice that you have been scammed of so much money and have decided to compensate you with a little token to recover the lost of your fund.

The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the current acting president of Nigeria his Excellency President Goodluck Jonathan to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to you and other individuals and organizations who have been found not to have receive their Contract Sum, Lottery/Gambling, Inheritance and the likes.

Now how would you like to receive your payment?

Via Bank to Bank Transfer or by ATM card?

To effect the release of your fund valued at $1.2 million, contact our online representative via the following informations and fill the below form on before contacting: Mr. Micheal Glover (info7875@gmail.com)

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Full Name:............
Address:..............
Country:..............
Age:..................
Occupation:...........
Sex:..................
Marital status:.......
Mobile/Tel:...........
***Postal Addresses are not Allowed***
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This morning our local time I sent a fax to the office of the Nato Secretary General Sire Anders Fogh who issued a mandate to compensate scam victim like you through your prefered method of payment that will be shipped to you alongside the documents to back them up, the fax I sent to him was to let him know, who will be responsible for the Insurance document and Federal tax document on his response to me through same fax he said he will talk to the head of the ministry offices where this documents are procured.

You are therefore advice not to toy with this developments as a mandate was also issued to terminate the fund immediately if you fail to claim your fund soonest.I have done my best as a clergy drafted newly to this position to assist people like you the rest is left for you. urgent response will enable me forge ahead towards the onwards delivery of your payment to your residential address.

I await your response to this email so we forge ahead with your payment delivery.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Kimora Rutherford.
US Antic-Crimes Commission
CC: National Central Bureau of Interpol

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