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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: "West African Economic And Monetary Union" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <uemoa1@she.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:05:13 +0300
Subject: Unusual Activities With Your Payment and Refund Notification.

Dear beneficiary.

Following the appeals and phone calls made to the United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund by several foreigners owed by African Governments, to close credit links to African Countries because of the non-payment of their executed contract, Lottery and Inheritance funds.

The newly elected African head of states, Union Economique Et Moneta ire OUEST AFRICAINE { UEMOA },Association of African Central Banks {AACB},( the Senate Committees, Legislators of the house of Assemblies, Central Bank Executives, board of Directors and the delegated officials of the World Bank/IMF AND ECOWAS Authorities, have held a joint conference to investigate, review and re approve all affected foreigners official paper of fund claim as contained in their files and clarify with satisfactory evidence to the WAEMU Foreign Debt Reconciliation Liaison Office Unit sitting in the WAEMU Liaison office in Cotonou, to effect the release of all Authenticated Contract/inheritance fund to their respective beneficiaries.

After an unanimous pact of 1st October, 2014 at the ECOWAS Conference Center in Cotonou Benin Republic , have earmarked the sum of US$4.5 Billion Dollars , for the servicing of debts owed to Foreign Contractors and Inheritors of funds, by several banks in West and East African Sub region.

However during our security checkup of your payment file's, we discovered that there was an wrong attempts by someone neither than you in collaboration with some dubious bankers who were handling your refund payment, and to divert your approved fund to another Bank accounts for their selfish enrichment, but for the facts that our system security team discovered the attempt and immediately stopped the payment transfer and replace your original name to the computer database as the sole signatory and the beneficiary to this payment Refund.

Again, there were false allegations that your fund was also illegitimate and was as result unlawfully stopped by authorities that have no Right to do so. The stop order was manipulated, orchestrate by the bankers in African bank just to frustrate you with endless request of money for these unnecessary certificates, to make you come fall to bankruptcy and give up the claim of your legitimately acquired fund and legacies.

Please be informed that after the disbursement ratio of US$4.5 Billion Dollars, shared among the affected foreign beneficiary, this Commission has approved and been authorized to pay all your fund in full with no further delays, through this payment methods below,

1. BANK TO BANK ELECTRONIC TRANSFER OR
2. PAYMENT BY A CERTIFIED INTERNATIONAL BANK DRAFT.

So indicate your preferred mode of payment, from the above duo mode of Payment options.

Note- due to job incompetence and corruption of the other extortion of fees by the ex and current Board of directors of the banks that have been handling your payment files in the past, the West African Monetary & Economic Union in conjunction with World Bank, IMF and United Nations authority, have handed over all foreign debt payments assignments to WAEMU accredited paying bank in Republic of Benin, THE BANQUE INTERNATIONAL DU BENIN (BIBE).

Consequently you are therefore been ask to desist from accepting faxes,Telephone calls or emails that are not from this office and you should reply as a matter of urgency for the release of your fund's payment.

Contact us immediately on our below email contact, so we shall direct you to the appropriate department of Banque International Du Benin that is currently in custody of your payment file and has been solely accredited to remit to you accordingly.

For more information please visit: http://www.uemoa.int/

HAVE A NICE DAY.

Clement Dzidonu
Director
West African Economic
And Monetary Union (UEMOA)
http://www.uemoa.int/
http://www.gim-uemoa.org/
http://www.investinuemoa.com/
https://www.facebook.com/UEMOA

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