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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. Jan Eliasson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <un2147017@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 04:52:23 -0700
Subject: RE: UNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

UNITED NATION COMPENSATION UNIT, IN AFFILIATION WITH WORLD BANK AUDITORS.UK
GOVERNMENT/UNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
 
Dear sir,
 
I am Mr. Jan Eliasson, The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations HSBC bank of LONDON is pay 150 scam victims $1,500,000.00 (ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLAR) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to me as soon as Possible for the immediate payments of your $1,500,000.00 compensations funds. On this faithful recommendations, we want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at white house it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on  the lose of funds by various individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates all
over the world today. In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in Conjunction with the UK Government is now paying 150 victims of this operators $1,500,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations.
 
Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in the world, the payments are to be supervised by the United Nations' Officials and the HSBC BANK GROUP as the corresponding paying bank (CPB) According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United States, we Still have more 36 left to be paid the compensations of $1,500,000.00 each. 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 is already on trace of the other criminals.
 
Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.
 
Information request for your transfer are;
 
* 1) YOUR FULL NAME:
 
* 2) ADDRESS, CITY, STATE AND COUNTRY.
 
* 3) PHONE, FAX AND MOBILE
 
* 4) COMPANY NAME (IF ANY) POSITION AND ADDRESS
 
* 5) BANK DETAILS
 
* 6) PROFESSION, AGE AND MARITAL STATUS
 
* 7) COPY OF YOUR INT”L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE
 
You are thereby advised to respond to this office through this email (un2147017@gmail.com) with immediate effect, so that i will direct you to contact the private payment supervise of the HSBC BANK GROUP through their Direct information.
 
You will be detailed with the modalities as you contact us for details.
 
Yours faithfully,
 
Mr. Jan Eliasson.
(Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations)

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