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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: "Financial Investigation Bureau" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jamesinana@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:15:17 +0500
Subject: Notification....

WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017, USA.
OUR REF:UN/WR/011.4XXVX/100
YOUR REF;CBN/WBA/345-BS/2014
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 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 UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC. to pay 50 victims from your country this 2014 who has being Victims of Internet scam and your Name and email .The United Nations has decided to pay you $2,500,000 each of the internet scam victim.
You are listed and approved for this payment in this month of july. please you are advice to  get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payment of your $2,500,000 compensation funds for this july 2014.  We have been having a meeting for some months which ended Three days ago with the former secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.
 
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 Name and 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.
 
Note that United Nations Board of Director have sign your ATM CARD PARCELin the favor of your name and handed it over to Rev James Inana Chief Protocol Officer,  Dispatch Unit to arrange the delivery process, you have to contact Rev James Inana in charge of your ATM CARD PARCEL, as he is our UNITED NATIONS representative in UNITED STATE and AFRICA region,  contact him immediately for your funds
 
Contact information:
 
Rev James Inana
Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit.
Director of Foreign Operations &
Foreign Remittance Department
Email: (james.inana@aol.com)
Direct Telephone line:+234-812325557
 
As soon as you establish a communication 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:
 
He will be expecting your email and 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 James Inana as the Security Keeping Fee of your PARCEL to your door step. because the delivery fee have been sorted out by the UN,Please contact Rev James Inana now,
 
Sincerely yours,
Yours Faithfully,
Secretary-General BAN KI MOON
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
 

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