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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: "Mrs. Adekunle Bukky" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infounation77@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:30:27 -0800
Subject: Dear Scam Victim

United Nations/IMF Assisted Program
Directorate of International Payment
United Nations Liaison Office - Africa

Dear Scam Victim,

Beneficiary:

This is to bring to your notice that I am a delegate from the United Nations to The IMF (International Monetary Fund) West

Africa Regional Payment Office to pay 521 scam victims $2,500,000.00 USD (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars only) 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 $2,500,000.00 USD compensations funds. On this faithful

recommendations, I want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria, it was

alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on the lost of funds by various individual to scam artist operating in

syndicates all over the world today.

In other to compensate these victims, the U.N Body is now paying 521 victims of this operators $2,500,000.00 USD each in

accordance with the U.N .recommendations. Due to the corrupt and in-efficient Banking Systems in Federal Republic of

Nigeria, the payments are to be paid by UN officials sitting at IMF (International Monetary Fund) West Africa Regional

Payment Office as corresponding payment center under funding assistance by United Nation body. According to the number of

applicants at hand, 284 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United States, and we still have

more 237 left to be paid the compensations of $2,500,000.00 USD each.

ATM VISA Card: We will be issuing you a custom pin based ATM card which you will use to withdraw up to $10,000 per day

from any ATM machine that has the Card Logo on it. Also with the ATM card you will be able to transfer your funds to your

local bank account. The ATM card comes with a handbook or manual to enlighten you about how to use it. Even if you do not

have a bank account.

Check: To be deposited in your bank for it to be cleared within three working days.Your payment would be sent to you via

any of your preferred option and would be mailed to you via FedEx. Because we have signed a contract with FedEx which

should expire by the end of March 2014 you will only need to pay $120.00 instead of $454.00 saving you $369.00! So if you

pay before November 10th you save $334.00 Take note that anyone asking you for some kind of money above the usual fee is

definitely a fraudsters and you will have to stop communication with every other person if you have been in contact with

any. Also remember that all you will ever have to spend is $120 nothing more! Nothing less! And we guarantee the receipt

of your fund to be successfully delivered to you within the next 24hrs after the receipt of payment has been confirmed.

Note: Everything has been taken care of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all

you will ever need to pay is $120. DO NOT SEND MONEY TO ANYONE UNTIL YOU READ THIS: The actual fees for shipping your ATM

card is $454 but because FedEx have temporarily discontinued the C.O.D which gives you the chance to pay when package is

delivered for international shipping as stated on their website:

http://fedex.com/us/international/irc/profiles/irc_ng_profile.html?gtmcc=us#C10 We had to sign contract with them for bulk

shipping which makes the fees reduce from the actual fee of $454.99 to $120 nothing more and no hidden fees of any sort!

To effect the release of your fund valued at $2.6million you are advised to contact our correspondent in west Africa the

delivery officer Ken Bosi with the information below:

Name: Mr. Ken Bosi
E-mail: infounation77@gmail.com
Telephone: +234-818-397-2515
On contacting him do provide him with the following information:
Your full Name.............
Your Address:..............
Occupation:.................
Home/Cell Phone:..............
Preferred Payment Method (ATM/Cashier Check):


Upon receipt of payment the delivery officer will ensure that your package is sent within 24 working hours. Because we are

so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive payment/package within the next

24hrs after you have made the payment for shipping.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Adekunle Bukky

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