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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: zam chukwu <zamchukwu3@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:22:38 -0800
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED

DIRECTOR SPECIAL DUTIES.
UNITED NATIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL
MONETARY FUND WORLD BANK SPECIAL
DUTIES.

Dear Friend.

I am Rev.Fr.Clinton Paul, a senior staff with the UN special duties
officem.My office monitors and controls the affairs of all banks and
financial institutions.

I have before me list of funds, which could not be transferred to some
nominated accounts as these accounts have been identified either as
ghost accounts, unclaimed deposits and over-invoiced sum etc; I have
the opportunity to write you based on the instructions among others i
received days ago from the officer in the computer section in person
of Engineer Peter Cliff, to bring out part of your total pending
payment with reference number(LM-05-371) amounting US$10 million.

The (Ten Million Dollars) is been arranged in a security-proof box
weighing 75kg. In order to get the box shipped to you.

As I found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements
in respect of your pending payment. The problems you are having is
that of interest groups.

A lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are
merely doing paper works with you and that explains why you receive
different kinds of untrue fax and phone messages from different people
everyday. Also we found out that some of the officials of the
parastatals have been extorting lot of money from you with the pretext
of helping you receive your money.I can assure you this will keep
happening if you do not do away with those officers.

Note:For security reasons you do not have to tell anybody that your
have your payment on the way until the payment gets to you. said
payment is been arranged in a security-proof> box weighing 75kg.

In order to get this box shipped to you, the (CSO) and I Yesterday
went to this four courier companies Dhl, Ems, FedEx and Ups to make
arrangements on how to get the box shipped to you by courier, but to no
avail the above courier companies all made us to understand that they
will have to open the box for inspection by the customs before
shipment. This is something we want to avoid because this box is been
padded with synthetic nylon and to open it you will have to cut the
pad before you will meet the button that you will press to open the
dial code-lock.

There is no way you can open the box and be able to close it again
because it was padded with machine.for security reasons We told the
courier company that the box contained film materials and when open
will spoil the materials.

Note: we did not declare money because courier does not carry
money.Today a friend of mine who is a diplomat disclosed to me that
there is a security courier service company that is specialized in
sending diplomatic materials and information from one country to
another which also has diplomatic immunity on consignment such as his
cannot be checked by any customs anywhere in the world.

I have therefore met the official of the security courier service and
concluded shipping arrangement with them, which they will commence as
soon as I have your approval.

The diplomat who will be bringing in this consignment to you is an
expert and has been in this ine of work for many years now so we have
nothing to worry about. After all arrangements we have concluded that
you must donate Five Hundred Thousand United States
dollars(US$500,000.00) to any charity organization I designate as soon
as you receive your money.


To this effect you will send to us a promissory note for the donation
along with your address where you will like the box to be delivered to
by the courier.

Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if
found out that we are using this way to help you. You are advised not
to inform anyone about this until you received your money.

I Am helping you on this because i want to be able help the innocent
young helpless African children and something in me is tells me that
you are an honest person. When you conclude this and fulfill the
agreement, we will help to ship the final part of your money to you.

May God be with you as i await your response. Feel free email me,if
you will like us to discuses more.

Yours Faithfully,

Revd. Fr. Clinton Paul.
Director, Special Duties.UN/WBF

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