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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: "UN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrdancla1@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 02:46:02 +0200
Subject: urgent reply

UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
Benin Zonal office- Republic Du Benin
Office of The Director Special duties.
Email: officeservice@fastservice.com

Attention: Beneficiary

In regards to the recent meeting between the United Nations and the
Present United States Government to restore the dignity and Economy of the
Nations. Base on the Agreement with the World Bank Assistance to help and
make the world a better place for all with the sole aim of abolishing
poverty.

You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having a
meeting for the past 7 months which just ended few days ago with the
secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.

This email is to all the people that have been fraud victim in any part of the
world, the UNITED NATIONS IN Affiliation with WORLD BANK have agreed to
compensate you with the sum of $2,500, 000.00 Million Dollars: for self
support to help individuals to own a self charity organization also for you to build your Personal Company/organization so as to help the less privileged in there society due to the financial crisis.

This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their
contract, inheritance & lotto sum, and people that have had an unfinished
transaction or international business that failed due to Government
problems etc. We found your name in the list of those who are to benefit
from these compensation exercise and that is why we are contacting you,
this have been agreed upon and have been signed.

Your E-mail Address was drawn automatically on web directory through an
E-mail ballot machine, that is why this mail was sent to you and you are
qualified to receive the above mentioned compensation payment..


We are compensating you as it is stipulated in Section B act 4 of United Nations Compensation Commission(UNCC) guide lines and regulations of 08/04/2003


our accredited attorney have already pay in your fund with BOA Bank Plc Republic Du Benin, have you received your compensation from the bank? if no you have to contact the Bank immediately for your login name and the pin code of your online account and to transfer your fund directly to any of your account.

Send to the Bank your contacts information address to update your account profile.

This is the contact of the Bank below:
BOA Bank Plc
E-mail: adminaccount@barid.com

We will be waiting to hear from you as soon as you transfer your fund to your account to share the joy together with you, Let me know as soon as you had from the Bank.

Yours Faithfully,
Dr Fred Samson

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