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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 Salvatore Rossi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <eudebtreconciliationunit@aim.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 00:53:10 +0100
Subject: Compensation Commission

Dear Beneficiary,

we wish to notify you as a beneficiary of $10.million
USD in compensation and International Monetary Fund (IMF) European
cooperate Office have received all the overdue outstanding payments
owed to the following: firms, contractors, inheritance, next of kin
,Super Hurricane sandy and lottery beneficiaries that was originated
from Africa, Europe, Americans, Asia including Middle East. Among the
list are individuals and companies that their unpaid funds have been
located to our authorized official paying bank,

Your name appeared among the beneficiaries who will receive a payment
of $10.million USD and has been approved already as concluded by the
(IMF) Chapter and United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) based
on the agreement reached by the European Union and the United Nations
Policy Maker Unit under IMF payment constitution and the World
Economic Development Forum Annual Meeting held in Rome Italy to erase debt
owed by African banks , other several international banks world wide
as it has been backed by one of the main international lenders IMF
(International Monetary Fund) and United Nations Compensation
Commission(UNCC)through Debt Relief and Settlement Package.

This effort is to help tackle world financial crisis which resulted in
global rescission's in the entire world financial system since the
European Economic have a great remarks in growth statistics shows.

You are requested to get back to this office for verification and
immediate approval of your fund release.


Your full name
Your current postal address
Your phone
fax number
Total amount expecting: $10 million USD
Photocopy of your Identification proof

Instead of losing your fund, please indicate to us the total sum you
are expecting and for your information, you have to stop any further
communication with any institution or office .

This development is as result of the effort made by United Nations
Compensation Commission (UNCC) and the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) European Central Bank / the European Council to this relief and
any negligence and undermining of this message may result confiscation
of your awaiting Outstanding Fund .We are directed to compensate you
as it is stipulated in Section B act 4 of United Nations Compensation
Commission(UNCC) guide lines and regulations of (08/04/2014).Note
that you can also visit this link (http://www.uncc.ch/status.htm
) .

Yours in service,
Mr Salvatore Rossi
PHONE: +393246104981
Email: eudebtreconciliationunit@aim.com
DEBT RECONCILIATION UNIT/UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION

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