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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 NATION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <Edmond2002@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:06:44 +0530
Subject: DEAR ELECT



UN offices in the UK/Ireland/Asia/America
World Food Programme/ Compensation Committee
United Nations Association of the UK/Asia
3 Whitehall Court London/SW1A 2EL


Beneficiary Email id owner


I'm so disappointed at the fact that you could give this respectable office a schedule and then end up failing to meet up Typhoon Haiyan disaster. Compensation of $2.5million USD asia region was instructed Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to Issue out in ATM CARD for abbreviation of the rate of poverty this support was fully effective with the help of World Bank, United Nation after a summit meeting in London.

Well, some other victim has paid the fee on your behalf alongside his own too so the two cards containing $2.5million USD were sent to him, he is a USA based in INDIA i had no choice but to plead with him to pay on your behalf and then receive it for you because if i leave it here, the UNRIC will order me to confiscate it since you have already exceeded the deadline announced by the UNRIC.

Luckily for you, he accepted and paid it on your behalf so it was sent to him via DHL overnight express delivery together with his too. He confirmed that he got the cards today. I told him that you will contact him for your card and as soon as you pay him back the money he spent on your behalf he should send the ATM CARD to you
after five days you did not contact him the CARD will return to UN office, Send below details to him for delivery of your ATM CARD.


Full Name:
Address:
Telephone No:
Country:
Identity Card if any has no copy:


You may as well confirm from him that his own is working perfectly. Hence, he will not hesitate to send it back to us if you do not lay claim to it in due time. Once you claim your card and start withdrawal, do not hesitate to feed me back .His name is Mr. Edmond Iyang based in New Delhi, and his e-mail:(Edmond2002@outlook.com)and Telephone +919-873-210-106 call him or mail him to claim your card if you wish.


Yours in Service,
Mr. Hayley Richardson
Media enquiry,
United Nations Association of the UK

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