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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: "United Nations" <cgpecupeople@gmail.com>
Reply-To: revwilliamsmith10@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:11:42 +0100
Subject: United Nation Fraud and Money Laundering Oversight Dept

United Nation Fraud and Money Laundering Oversight Dept
Investigation/ Monitoring/ Resolve and Consult Unit

Attn:


I am Rev William Smith (Fsc, Mni) United Nation representative for African
Economic Crimes, Scam and Money Laundering.

I write to address you on the account of petitions addressed to the United
Nation Security Council by both the government of United State of America
, France Britain re-enacting an expose to the colossal magnitude of scam,
deceit and money laundering cartel ring prevalent with countries such as
Gambia , Nigeria , Ghana , Benin Republic , England , Spain and United
State of America . It was on account of this that United Nation deployed
its African Commission on Economic Crimes to wade into this ugly trend.

Our Investigation revealed that this scam has been for a very long time
but assumed global dimension in the last fifteen years. In response to
these petitions to the UN, we have been engaged with the Nigeria
government in the last five months, discussing the implication of this
ugly payment scam in Nigeria . The high powered delegation from the UN has
achieved remarkable progress in our discussion with the Federal government
of Nigeria .

We are first in Nigeria because our investigation revealed that this
payment scam fraud originated from Nigeria . Need not be reminded that
this same scam issue formed the fulcon of the discussion between President
Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria and his United State counterpart Barrack
Obama during the visit of the former between April and June 2010 as
President Jonathan visited twice. He openly asked the American government
to assist Nigeria in calming this ugly vice.

In the last five months our team have worked assiduously with the
cooperation of the Nigeria government to reach a compromise considering
that this well documented payment claim scam is a systemic method through
which the highly placed Nigeria officials use in fleeing money using their
proxies to make contact to you. If you are convinced, they use to get all
the necessary requirement to move out the money in your name but the money
never gets to you because they have other ideas, so they put the money in
secret accounts by then you have been used. Our investigation revealed
this trend. At this point you became a beneficiary without payment from
the government. The truth is that you have been involved all this while in
a monetary payment claim scam. On record, your name, official address,
your bank details and other vital information are well documented but no
cent appropriated to you. At this point the money in question that you are
used to clear out has
been siphoned away

In our candid resolution with the government of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, it was well noted that most of the victims spent enormous amount
of money in this scam, therefore should be adequately compensated. These
victims of scam trend have been categorized as list A, B, C.

Presently we have started the payment of the compensation for victims as
agreed between the UN and the government of Nigeria . As we work in
Nigeria today under the supervision of the vice president of World Bank
Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo Iwuala. This commission is paying out the sum of $2M
to all the victimized beneficiaries in our A list, we are paying $1.5M for
category B and finally $1M for category C. We have access to the victim’s
compensation fund earmarked from Nigeria ’s excess crude oil account of
its federal reserve. For this we have enough fiscal cash to settle payment
on prorata basis.

Finally this letter came to you because you have been listed in category
(B) and entitled to receive the sum of $1.5M as compensation fee. Contact
our office via email with information’s like Name, Address, and Phone
Number for accurate vetting. As agreed the only thing you require is to
obtain the Compensation Fund Allocation Mandate (CFAM).

Contact us immediately.

Dr.Rev William Smith (Fsc, Mni)
United Nation representative
African Economic Crimes, Scam and Money Laundering

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