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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: <alert22@INFORMATIONDEPARTMENT.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <unitednationsuncompensations@yahoo.com.sg>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:45:06 +0530
Subject: UNITED NATIONS (UN) ONLINE COMPENSATION DEPARTMENt

WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017 , USA
YOUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.

Greetings Beneficiary,

We were authorized by the newly appointed United Nation Secretary General, and the Governing body of the United Nations Debt Reconciliation Unit, to investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment, recommended and approved in your favor. During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials of the Bank and Government regulatory organs in India who are trying to divert your funds into their private accounts.

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in HSBC To pay 50 victims from your country who has being Victims of Internet scam .The United Nations has decided to pay you (1.5 MILLION) ( ONE MILLION FIVE HUNRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payment of your (1.5 MILLION) ( ONE MILLION FIVE HUNRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) compensation funds. We have been having a meeting for the past Seven months which ended Three days ago with the former secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.

This email is to 50 selected people that have been scammed or extorted money from because of your contract payment execution in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of (1.5 MILLION) ( ONE MILLION FIVE HUNRED THOUSAND DOLLARS)This includes every foreign contractors that may have not yet received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems or irregularities etc. We found your email in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed by the United Nations Board of Directors and Trustees from the WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME.

We sent you series of emails in this regards but you did not respond back to us; However, in the course of our routine securitization into our Dispatch Alert, we discovered that the document of your fund is intact and very much available, note that United Nations Board of Director have sign your ATM CARD in the favor of your name and hand it over to REV. CLARK PETERSON Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit to fill it, you have to contact REV. CLARK PETERSON in charge of your ATM CARD, as he is our UNITED NATIONS representative in UNITED STATE and Asia Region, contact him immediately for your ATM CARD VALUE SUM OF (1.5 MILLION) ( ONE MILLION FIVE HUNRED THOUSAND DOLLARS)
This funds are in a ATM CARD for security purpose. He will send it to you and you can clear it in any ATM Machine of your choice.
Contact information:
REV. CLARK PETERSON
Chief Protocol Officer , Dispatch Unit.
Email: ( unitednationsuncompensations@yahoo.com.sg )

As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide your present address as below to the contact in other for the Officer to effect the change and Re-direct the parcel to your home address.

1. Full Names:
2. Residential Address:
3. MOBILE NUMBER:
4. Fax Number:
5. Sex:
7. Age:
8. Nationality:
9.Country:
10.Marital Status:
11.E-mail id:
We expect your urgent attention to this email to enable us monitor this payment effectively. Most importantly you shall be requested to pay the sum of 490.770 USD ( FOUR HUNDRED AND NINTY DOLLARS ) Through REV. CLARK PETERSON as the Delivery fee of your ATM CARD. Once you contact the Office, please request delivery option from him in other to avoid further delay.

You are also required to send us your id proof for verification. Our paying banks are (1) ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND. (2) BANK OF ENGLAND.

Note that if your personal information/details is not found satisfactory or rimes with the details we have in our system, this automatically disqualifies you.

And if you know that you are not ready to remit the 490.770 USD ( FOUR HUNDRED AND NINTY DOLLARS ) , don’t bother to reply to this mail as this compensation programme is legit and risk free and this is the only amount you are to pay to enable our paying bank release your ATM CARD without delay.

Note our email is: unitednationsuncompensations@yahoo.com.sg
.
Yours Faithfully,
Secretary-General United Nation
BAN KI MOON
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
Tel: +447561880682
Fax: 212-490-9634
unitednationsuncompensations@yahoo.com.sg

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