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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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Fraud email example:

From: paul clinton <zamchukwu@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:36:15 -0800
Subject: FROM: MONETARY FUND WORLD BANK

DIRECTOR SPECIAL DUTIES.
UNITED NATIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL
MONETARY FUND WORLD BANK SPECIAL
DUTIES,OFFICE ACCRA-GHANA.

Dear Friend.

I am Rev. Fr. Clinton Paul, a senior staff with the
UN special duties office. my office monitors and
controls the affairs of all banks and financial
institutions.

I have before me list of funds, which could not be
transferred to some nominated accounts as these
accounts have been identified either as ghost
accounts, unclaimed deposits and over-invoiced sum
etc; I have the opportunity to write you based on
the instructions among others i received days ago
from the officer in the computer section in person
of Engineer Peter Cliff, to bring out part of your
total pending payment with reference
number(LM-05-371) amounting US$10 million.

The (Ten Million Dollars) is been arranged in a
security-proof box weighing 75kg. In order to get
the box shipped to you.

As I found out that you have almost met all the
statutory requirements in respect of your pending
payment. The problems you are having is that of
interest groups.

A lot of people are interested in your payment and
those people are merely doing paper works with you
and that explains why you receive different kinds of
untrue fax and phone messages from different people
everyday. Also we found out that some of the
officials of the parastatals have been extorting a
lot of money from you with the pretext of helping
you receive your money.

I can assure you this will keep happening if you do
not do away with those officers. For security
reasons you do not have to tell anybody that your
have your payment on the way until the payment gets
to you.

said payment is been arranged in a security-proof> box weighing 75kg.
In order to get this box shipped to you, the (CSO)
and I Yesterday went to this four courier companies
Dhl, Ems, FedEx and Ups to make arrangements on how
to get the box shipped to you by courier, but to no
avail the above courier companies all made us to
understand that they will have to open the box for
inspection by the customs before shipment. This is
something we want to avoid because this box is been
padded with synthetic nylon and to open it you will
have to cut the pad before you will meet the button
that you will press to open the dial code-lock.

There is no way you can open the box and be able to
close it again because it was padded with machine.
For security reasons We told the courier company
that the box contained film materials and when open
will spoil the
materials.

Note: we did not declare money because courier does
not carry money.Today a friend of mine who is a diplomat disclosed
to me that there is a security courier service
company that is specialized in sending diplomatic
materials and information from one country to
another, which also has diplomatic immunity on
consignment such as this cannot be checked by any
customs anywhere in the world.

I have therefore met the official of the security
courier service and concluded shipping arrangement
with them, which they will commence as soon as I
have your approval.

The diplomat who will be bringing in this
consignment to you is an expert and has been in this
line of work for many years now so we have nothing
to worry about. After all arrangements we have
concluded that you must donate Five Hundred
Thousand United States dollars(US$500,000.00) to any
charity organisation I designate as soon as you
receive your money.


To this effect you will send to us a promissory note
for the donation along with your address where you
will like the box to be delivered to by the courier.

Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a
lot of problems if found out that we are using this
way to help you. You are advised not to inform
anyone about this until you received your money.

I Am helping you on this because i want to be able
help the innocent young helpless African children
and something in me is tells me that you are an
honest person. When you conclude this and fulfill the
agreement, we will help to ship the final part of
your money to you.

May God be with you as i await your response. Feel
free email me, if you will like us to discuses more.

Yours Faithfully,

Revd. Fr. Clinton Paul.
Director, Special Duties.UN/WBF
( Direct Telephone: +233542135202)

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