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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: UNITED NATIONS <info@unitednations852.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <unitednations.delhi@asia.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:10:48 +0530
Subject: YOUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS

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 ,
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 favour. 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 ( 80 LAKHS RUPEES) ( Eighty Lakhs Indian Rupees )
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 80 LAKHS RUPEES 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 80 LAKHS RUPEES 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 favour 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 ( 80 LAKHS RUPEES ), 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: ( unitednations.delhi@asia.com )
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 29,663 INR ( Twenty Nine
Thousand, six Hundred and sixty Three Rupees Only ) 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 29,663 INR ( Twenty Nine Thousand,
six Hundred and sixty Three Rupees Only ) , 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: unitednations.delhi@asia.com
.
Yours Faithfully,
Secretary-General United Nation
BAN KI MOON
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
Tel: 212-490-9651
Fax: 212-490-9634
www.un.org

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