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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: rt.rev.ericmark0@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:06:58 +0100
Subject: RE: UNITED NATIONS PAYMENT OFFICE ATHENS, GREECE



UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION/
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND/
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL
DUTIES OFFICE.

Greetings to you,

I am Rt. Rev. Father Eric Mark, a senior staff with the
World Bank fact finding & special duties office. Immediately
after the publication from this office that all unpaid
contract funds (UCF), unpaid lotto fund (ULF), scammed
victims funds (SVF) ETC should be paid through this office.
This office received many applications including from your
representative with British passport NO. 3028882234. Who
also forwarded this account to us to transfer your fund
into, ACC. NAME: MR JAMES JACKSON. BANK NAME: CITI BANK.
ADDRESS: ARIZONA, USA. ACCOUNT NUMBER: 6503809008. On your
receipt of this message I want you to urgently reconfirm to
this office whether this person is truly from you or not, as
this office will not be liable if the total sum US$10MILLION
is paid into your representative (Mr. James Jackson)
account.

If not you are requested to forward the following
information to this office for verifications and re-approval
of your funds on your name as beneficiary of the fund. 1)
YOUR NAME IN FULL. 2) YOUR COMPLETE ADDRESS. 3) YOUR
TELEPHONE OR CONTACT INFORMATION. 4)AGE AND GENDER. 5) YOUR
OCCUPATION. ON PERSONAL NOTE: According to information I
personally gathered from the banks/security and computer
section, you have been waiting for a long time to receive
your money without success. As I found out that you have
almost met all the statutory requirements in respect of your
fund settlement, but your problem is that of interest
groups. A lot of people are interested in your payment and
those people are merely doing papers works with you and that
is why you receive messages from different people almost
every day. Also we found out that some of the officials and
fraudsters have been extorting money from you with the
pretext of helping you to receive your money. I can assure
you that this may last for years yet nothing happens, if you
did not do away with those officers you call your partners
and for security reasons. And I have decided to take it upon
myself to make sure that you received your funds immediately
through diplomatic means of payment or through ATM MASTER
CARD means of payment.

PLEASE NOTE, If you decided to receive the money through
diplomatic means, that means two security proof boxes
weighing 110kg each, which is 220kg for the two boxes will
be send to you. Already we have visited four courier
companies to make arrangements on how to ship them by
courier to you, we went to DHL, FedEx, IAS, UPS, and all
said that they must open the boxes for inspection by the
customs before shipment. This is something we want to avoid
because the boxes were padded with machine in the United
States, to open them you have to cut the pad before you will
meet the buttons that you will press to open the dial
code-lock. Therefore there is no way to open the boxes and
be able to close them again. We told the courier services
that the boxes contained film materials and when open to air
it will spoil the materials. We did not declare money (cash)
because couriers do not carry money or they may be tempted
to run way with the money. A friend of mine who is diplomat
disclosed to me that there is courier service they use to
send diplomatic material and information from one country to
another. It has diplomatic immunity and cannot be checked by
the customs in anywhere in the World. The name of the
courier service is Global Security Service (GSS) I will meet
them as soon as I have your go ahead order. The Diplomat
will help me to get immunity papers, so we do not have any
problem while the boxes are on transit.

We have concluded that you must compensate us with five
hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$500.000.00) as
soon as you receive your money to this effect, you will send
to us a promissory note for five hundred thousand united
States Dollars (US$500.000.00) along with your address for
sending the boxes by diplomatic courier OR ATM CARD, Please
maintain top most secrecy as it may cause a lot of problem
if found out that we are using this way to help you. Do not
ever tell anybody about this until you have your money at
your doorstep. I want to help you because something in me is
telling me that you are an honest person, when we concluded
this and you send our part. We will help to ship the final
part of the money. Be blessed as we wait for your urgent
reply to send the money through diplomatic courier OR
through ATM MASTER CARD. For security reason please reply to
( rt.rev.ericmark0@gmail.com ).

Yours faithfully,

Rt. Rev. Father Eric Mark
Chairman, Fact-Finding & Special Duties Office

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