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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: "Mr. Michael Møller" <info@uncc.ch>
Reply-To: <mike.mwilson1711@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:23:27 -0200
Subject: 2014 UNCC AUDITOR'S FORUM

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Attn: Recipient,
The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) was created in 1991 as a subsidiary organ of the UN Security Council. Its mandate is to process claims and pay compensation for losses and damage suffered as a direct result of unlawful scam invasion carried out by some banks, Security Company and other payment agencies.
 
In its decision 12th January, the Governing Council established basic principles for the distribution of compensation payments to successful claimants. This decision was made two months before the resolution of the first installment of claims before the Commission. As stated in the Secretary-General's report on 17th of January, it was anticipated that the value of approved awards would far exceed the resources available in the Compensation Fund at any given time. The Governing Council therefore devised a mechanism for the allocation of available funds to successful claimants that gave priority to the three urgent categories of claims and which, within each category, would give equal treatment to similarly situated claims. Only when each successful claimant in categories "A", "B" and "C" have been paid an initial amount up to US$3,000,000.00.
In its decision of 24th January , the Governing Council adopted the mechanism for the second phase of payments. It determined that priority of payment will continue to be provided to individual claimants in categories "A" and "C", while meaningful compensation would also be provided to claimants in categories "D", "E" and "F".
 
In accordance with this decision, payments of up to US$ 6, 500, 00.00 were subsequently made available to you as one of the beneficiaries, now you are going to receive the total sum of US$6, 500, 000.00 in this year UNCC reward program.
Please i will advice you contact Mr. Mike Wilson  for further details and clarification.
 
Name: Mr. Mike Wilson
 
Email: mike.wilson1711@gmail.com
 
Yours truly,
Mr. Michael Møller
Director-General UNCC

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