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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 NATION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <united.nationunitednation501@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 15:34:06 +0100
Subject: 111IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND US$10.5M ONLY VIA ATM VISA CARD

United Nation Organization
Information Section.
760 United Nations Plaza,
New York, NY 10017, USA.
RE: DOCKET NO. OP 292.
Our Ref: UN/BKL/STB
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND US$10.5M ONLY VIA ATM VISA CARD
 
Attention:
 
We wish to bring to your notice that we the United Nation office has taking over all the money transfer originated from any part of American, African country and European countries as contract payment, fund inheritance or lottery winning due to unauthorized/incapability of financial institutions/security companies in releasing such huge sum of money result of fraud, terrorist and money laundry activities going on World Wide today.
 
We have been having series of meetings for the past 7 months which ended 2 days ago with the secretary general of the United Nations, International monetary fund Including the World Bank Officials.
 
This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, We the United Nations with the World Bank officials have agreed to compensate them with the sum of $10,500.000.00 USD (Ten Millions Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) each victim. This includes every foreign contractor that may have not received his or her contract sum and people that have had an unfinished transaction, people who have inheritance to claim or international businesses that failed due to instability of government in some part of America etc.
 
Note: the only expenses you are expected to make in this transaction is to take care of your delivery charges which will cost you the sum of $198 which is fee you are expected to pay in order to effect quick delivery of your ATM VISA CARD to your doorstep for this fiscal year 2015 and the information will be provided to you once you contact the ACCESS BANK.
 
So we have mandated the Access Bank Nigeria Plc to issue you an ATM VISA CARD and PIN which you will use to withdraw the fund from any ATM machine in any part of the world but the maximum amount you can withdraw per day is US$7,000.00. You are strongly advice immediately to contact MR. VICTOR ETUKWU the Manager of Access Bank Nigeria Plc via his email address: bankplc2014@yandex.com call his direct Phone:+234-(810) 952 7312 for oral dicussion and send him your information such as;
 
1) Your Full Name:………..
2) Your Contact Address:…….
3) Your Occupation:……
4) Your Age:…….
5) Your  Sex :……..
6) Your Home Phone, Mobile/Cell Phone and fax Number:…
 
The ATM VISA CARD approval in your name has been sent to MR. VICTOR ETUKWU and he is waiting for your above information to enable him process and send you the CARD and PIN number without any delay. So make sure you contact him right now with your information and tell him that you received a message from the UNITED NATION, Instructing you to contact him for immediate release of your fund via ATM VISA CARD.
 
Contact FBI via this email: Reports@fbi.gov if you did not receive this ATM VISA CARD after 72hours you contacted him. You are warned to disregard other contact or any communication you have with other offices.
 
Please we are very sorry for the plight you may have gone through in the past.
 
Thanks for adhering to this instruction and once again accept our congratulations!
 
Yours Sincerely,
MR. Kiyotaka Akasaka
Public Information Officer.



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