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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: Secretary-General BAN KI MOON <federalministry33@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: federalreserveban1@qq.com
Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 19:08:17 +0000
Subject: WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMMED



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WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMMED
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017, USA.
OUR REF:UN/WR/011.4XXVX/100
YOUR REF;CBN/WBA/345-BS/2015

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 BENIN
REPUBLIC 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 UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC. to pay 50 victims from your
country
as from 2013 who has being Victims of Internet scam and your Name and
email .The United Nations has decided to pay you $12,500,000 USD (Two
Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) each of the Internet
Scam victim. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the
scammed victims to be paid this amount in this month. please you
are advice to get back to this office as soon as possible for the
immediate payment of your $12,500,000 USD compensation funds for this
march 2015. We have been having a meeting for the past Seven months a
ago
which ended Three days ago with the former secretary to the UNITED
NATIONS.

This email is to 50 selected people in your Country 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 $12.5 MILLION 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 Name and 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 PROGRAMMED.

Note that United Nations Board of Director have sign your ATM CARD in
the
favor of your name and hand it over Rev Frank Brown Protocol Officer,
Dispatch Unit to arrange the delivery process, you have to contact Rev
Frank Brown 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 $12.5.MILLION USD, This funds are in a ATM CARD for
security purpose.

Contact information:
Rev Frank Brown
Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit.
Director of Foreign Operations &
Foreign Remittance Department
UBA Bank of and Benin Republic
Email: (federalreserveban1@qq.com)
Direct Telephone line: +229.68.17.30.09

As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide
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:

He will be expecting your email and urgent attention to this email to
enable us monitor this payment effectively. Once you contact the Office,
please request the delivery option from him in other to avoid further
delay.

Sincerely yours,
Yours Faithfully,
Secretary-General BAN KI MOON
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
http://www.un.org/s
Contact EMAIL;(federalreserveban1@qq.com)




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