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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@unitednations.org>
Reply-To: <johndonald155@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:21:58 +0000
Subject: Re: We Sent You Series of E-mails

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/039 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 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

organisation in Nigeria who are trying to divert your funds into their private accounts.

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegate from the UNITED NATIONS in HSBC To pay

101 persons from your country who have been Victims of Internet scam .The United Nations

has decided to pay you $1,500,000 USD (One Million Five hundred Thousand United State

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

$1,500,000 USD compensation funds.

We have been having a meeting for the past four months which ended Three days ago with the

former secretary to the UNITED NATIONS. This email is to 117 selected people that have been

scammed or extorted money from. because of your contract payment execution in your country,

the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them, this include every foreign contractors

that may have not yet received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished

transaction or 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: the United Nations Board of Director have sign your ATM CARD in the favor of your

name and hand it over to Rev. John Donald, the Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit to

file it, you have to contact Rev John Donald in charge of your ATM CARD, as he is our

UNITED NATIONS representative in UNITED STATE and AFRICA region, contact him immediately

for your ATM CARD VALUE SUM OF $1.5 MILLION USD, 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 John Donald
Chief Protocol Officer,Dispatch Unit.
Email: johndonald155@gmail.com

As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide your present contact

details as shown below, for the Officer to effect the change and Re-direct the parcel to

your home address.

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
COUNTRY:

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 $150 by the protocol

officer as the Delivery fee of your ATM CARD package.

Once you contact the Office, please request delivery option from him in other to avoid

further delay.

Yours Faithfully,
Secretary-General United Nation
BAN KI MOON
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
http://www.un.org/sg

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