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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" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <u_bankimoon@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:01:42 +0100
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION FROM THE OFFICE OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON

 
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 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 organization 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 $4,700,000 USD (Four Million seven hundred Thousand United State Dollars) each. You were 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 $4,700.000 USD compensation funds.
 
We having a meeting for the past four months which ended one week ago with the former secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.
 
This email is to 101 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 you, 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 PROGRAMMED.
 
We sent you series of emails in this regards but you did not respond back to us; however, in the course of our routine secularization 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 payment in the favor of your name and hand it over to Rev.Bryan Hudson, the Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit to file it, you have to contact Rev.Bryan Hudson in charge of your fund as he is our UNITED NATIONS representative in AFRICA region, contact him immediately for your fund VALUE SUM OF $3.7 MILLION USD, This fund is in ATM CARD for security purpose. He will send it to you and you can clear it in any ATM Machine of your choice.
 
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 $250 by the protocol officer as the Delivery fee of your ATM CARD package.
 
Contact:Rev.Bryan Hudson
Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit.
Email :(  revbryan0@live.com )
 
Below is the payment information where to send the fee of $250 via Western Union or Money Gram money transfer;
 
Receiver name....JIM UGWU
Country.............Lagos-Nigeria
Text Question.........When
Answer..................Today
Amount........................$250
 
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 your delivery to your home address.
 
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
COUNTRY:
 
Once you contact the Office, please request delivery option from him in other to avoid further delay.
 
Yours Faithfully,
Secretary-General United Nations
BAN KI MOON, UNITED NATIONS

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