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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.BAN KI MOON. <ban_ki_moon71@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: revchriswilliams8@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:15:15 +0200
Subject: WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME( PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS)!

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/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.

Greetings (Dear Sir/Madam;

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

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED
NATIONS in HSBC To pay 50 victims from your country who has being
Victims of Internet scam .The United Nations has decided to pay you
$10,500,000 USD (Ten 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 $10,500,000 USD
compensation funds. We have been having a meeting for the past Seven
months which ended Three days ago with the former secretary to the
UNITED NATIONS.

This email is to 50 selected people that have been scammed or extorted
money from because of your contract payment execution in any part of
the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the
sum of $10.5 MILLON USD This includes every foreign contractors that
may have not yet received their contract sum, and people that have had
an unfinished transaction or international businesses 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 that United Nations Board of
Director have sign your ATM CARD in the favor of your name and hand it
over to REV. CHRIS WILLIAMS Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit to
fill it, you have to contact REV. CHRIS WILLIAMS 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
$10.5.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. CHRIS WILLIAMS
Chief Protocol Officer,Dispatch Unit .
Email: (revchriswilliams8@gmail.com)
Direct Telephone line:+234-703-520-7733



As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide
your present address as below to the contact in other for the Officer
to effect the change and Re-direct the parcel to your home address.

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
AGE/SEX:
IDENTIFICATION CARD/DRIVER'S LICENCE:

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(Only) by REV. CHRIS WILLIAMS as the Delivery fee
of your ATM CARD. 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

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