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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: Barry Bentman <test@wifi4all.it>
Reply-To: barrybentman@qq.com
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:52:39 +0100
Subject: UN CONTRACT ATM CARD PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.



--
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/XX0L8 UNITED NATIONS.

Greetings,

I am 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, I discovered with dismay that
your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials of the
Bank and Government regulatory organisation in Nigeria who are trying to
divert your funds into their private accounts.

This is to bring to your notice that I am a delegate from the UNITED
NATIONS and i have been instructed by the Secretary-General of The
United Nations Mr. BAN KI MOON To pay 15 persons from your country who
have been Victims of Internet scam . The United Nations has decided to
pay you US$950,000 [Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand US 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 $950,000 USD compensation
funds.

This email is to 15 selected persons that Funds has been extorted from.
The UNITED NATIONS has agreed to compensate you and every foreign
contractors that haven't received their contract sum due to Government
problems or irregularities etc.

I found your email in our list and that is why I am contacting you, this
has been agreed upon and signed by the United Nations Board of Trustees
from the WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME. I discovered that the document
of your funds is intact and very much available.

Note: The United Nations Board of Director have sign your ATM CARD
VALUED at $950,000USD, This funds are in an ATM CARD for security
purpose. my contact details

are as stated below :-

Email: barry.bentman@qq.com
Phone number: +1 240-317-7067

Please reconfirm the following informations for your perusal.

Full names:
Contact address:
State:
City:
Zip Code:
Country:
Sex:
Date of Birth:
Cell Phone number:
Mobile phone number:

I expect your urgent attention to this email to enable me monitor this
payment effectively. Most importantly you shall be requested to pay the
sum of $295 as the Delivery fee of your ATM CARD package Via FedEx , DHL
or UPS.

Yours Faithfully,
Rev. Barry Bentman.
CC: Secretary-General United Nation
BAN KI MOON
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
http://www.un.org/sg

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