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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: John Mike <akafa@apconng.com>
Reply-To: <jjmk1960@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:46:46 +0100
Subject: Re: Reply Soon

FRAUD VICTIM/521 BENEFICIARIES REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 06654 $24, 000,000.00



Dear Scam Victim:



This is to bring to your notice that I am a delegate from the United

Nations to The IMF (International Monetary Fund) Africa and Asian

Payment Office to refund 521 scam victims of which you are listed and

approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be refunded

from the money realized from fraudsters in Africa and Asia.



On this faithful recommendations, I want you to know that during the

last U.N. meetings held at Addis Ababa, it was alarming so much world

over in the meeting on the lost of funds by various individual to scam

artist operating in syndicates all over the world today.



In other to compensate these victims, the U.N Body is now paying

521victims of which the sum of $24, 000,000.00 USD was set aside to

compensate the victims each in accordance with the U.N.

recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and in-efficient Banking Systems in Africa and Asia,

the payments are to be paid by UN officials sitting at

IMF(International

Monetary Fund) Africa and Asia Office as corresponding payment center

under funding assistance by United Nation body.



According to the number of applicants at hand, 284 Beneficiaries has

been paid, half of the victims are from the United States and Europe,

and we still have more 237 spaces to be compensated. Your particulars

was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their

victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or

duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S.

Secret service and INTERPOL is already on trace of the other criminals.

So keep it secret till they are all apprehended. Other victims who have

not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny

and

possible consideration.



Send Your Full

Telephone number

Your correct address

Country

Sex

Occupation



Please you are advice to stop any communication with any person or Body

that you are currently paying money to due to transaction which you

have

online with the person. Please let us know right now via email or

telephone your present dealing online, so we can help you verify the

authenticity of the transaction which you are presently involved in, so

you don't get scammed. Please also send me proof of payment in any

previous payment you have made to him. If you still have any (optional)

I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.



Yours faithfully,

John Mike

jjmk1960@gmail.com





Attn: Please,



I am Rev. Francis John Morgan residing in London. I write to you concerning unclaimed money owned by one of my church members who has the same name with you {your namesake} and the person had an investment placed under an insurance company in USA 10 years ago valued at 28.2 Million United States Dollars before the person died. Every effort has been put in action to find a relation to the person but could not succeed. Both of you looks alike; are you related to the deceased person?



The person in question confessed to me in the presence of a consulting auditor attached with an insurance company in USA, which I am bound not to reveal by the fact that I am a priest. This person in question vowed to set up a charity foundation to help poor masses around and handed all documents relating to the 28.2 Million United States Dollars investment before death came and took the person away from us.



Since then, the auditor keeps on disturbing me to place someone in position to claim the fund for us to share but I said no. Now, I decided to listen to the consulting auditor just for the sake of the less privilege in our society and to fulfill the vow made by the deceased person.



I and the consulting auditor wants to place you in position to claim the money with help of our strong contacts because the real person who has the same name with you died without any one to claim the money and that was why I searched for your contact information hoping that you are still existing in this life. If you are interested, let me know so that I will be updating you with the step by step plans. It is absolutely free from risk or trouble to both parties. As a priest, I cannot do anything that will tarnish my good image or yours and you will lose nothing to get this achieved.



You and the consulting auditor will share forty percent of the total money equal on receipt of the money into your account and sixty percent will be use in setting up charity foundation to fulfill the vow made by the person before departing to another life, which is my main reason for accepting this plan.



View this web for more proof:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/-58-billion-unclaimed--is-some-of-it-yours--202441269.html



For us to achieve this plan successfully, we must keep this highly confidential.



Yours,



Rev. Francis John Morgan

rfm9091@gmail.com




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