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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: "MR BAN KI MOON" <rev.maxwellnewton440@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:52:22 +0600 (BDT)
Subject: YOUR ATM CARD APPROVAL....COMPLY ASAP

WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAM
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFER.
DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017 , USA
YOUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.

Greetings,

We were authorized by the newly appointed United Nation Secretary General,
and the Governing body of the United Nations Debt Reconciliation Unit, to
investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment, recommended and
approved in your favor. During the course of our investigation, we
discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by
corrupt officials of the Bank and Government regulatory organs in Nigeria
who are trying to divert your funds into their private accounts.


This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED
NATIONS in HSBC To pay 50 victims from your country who has being Victims
of Internet scam .The United Nations has decided to pay you $2,500,000 USD
(Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) each. You are
listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be
paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as possible for the
immediate payment of your $2,500,000 USD compensation funds. We have been
having a meeting for the past Seven months which ended Three days ago with
the former secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.

This email is to 50 selected people that have been scammed or extorted
money from because of your contract payment execution in any part of the
world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of
$2.5 MILLON USD This includes every foreign contractors that may have not
yet received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished
transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government
problems or irregularities etc. We found your email in our list and that
is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been
signed by the United Nations Board of Directors and Trustees from the
WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME.

We sent you series of emails in this regards but you did not respond back
to us; However, in the course of our routine securitization into our
Dispatch Alert, we discovered that the document of your fund is intact and
very much available, note that United Nations Board of Director have sign
your ATM CARD in the favor of your name and hand it over to REV. MAXWELL
NEWTON Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit to fill it, you have to
contact REV. MAXWELL NEWTON in charge of your ATM CARD, as he is our
UNITED NATIONS representative in UNITED STATE and AFRICA region, contact
him immediately for your ATM CARD VALUE SUM OF $2.5.MILLION USD, This
funds are in a ATM CARD for security purpose. He will send it to you and
you can clear it in any ATM Machine of your choice.

Contact information:

REV. MAXWELL NEWTON
Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit .
Email: (rev.maxwellnewton440@yahoo.com.ph)
Direct Tel: +2347083428477

As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide a
reconfirmation of your present address as below to the contact in other
for the Officer to effect the change and Re-direct the parcel to your home
address.

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
AGE/SEX:
IDENTIFICATION CARD/DRIVER'S LICENCE:

We expect your urgent attention to this email to enable us monitor this
payment effectively. Most importantly you shall be requested to pay the
sum of $150(Only) by REV. MAXWELL NEWTON as the Delivery fee of your ATM
CARD. Once you contact the Office, please request delivery option from him
in other to avoid further delay.

Yours Faithfully,

Secretary-General United Nation
BAN KI MOON
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA

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