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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 SOLOMON DIALO" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrsolomondialo@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 17:42:43 +0100
Subject: YOUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.

WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMMED
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT
United Nations Headquarters,
 
 
 
 
 
                           
                             YOUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.
 
 
 
 
Greetings From Mr SOLOMON DIALO.,
 
 
 
 
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 (five
 
Million 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 $5,000,000 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 for 100 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 $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 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 secularization 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 Mr HARRY OBI Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit to fill
 
it, you have to contact: HARRY OBI in charge of your ATM MASTER 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:
 
 
William Roberts
Chief Protocol Officer,Dispatch Unit .
 
 
 
 
 
RECONFIRM YOUR INFO DATA.
 
 
 
 
(1) Full name and delivery address:...................
(2) Address, city, state and country:....................
(3) Direct mobile/ phone /fax.:.........................
(4) International passport or Driven license....................
(5) Company name (if any) position and address............................
(6) Profession, age and marital status...................................
 
 
 
 
Note that this is the only fee you will pay to receive your fund. Here is your
 
delivery agent Name to send the delivery cost.
 
 
 
Receiver's Name: SAMUEL EKENE
Address: Lagos Nigeria
Test Question: NO MORE
Test Answer: YES
 
Senders Name......
Amount $225 USD
MTCN.................#
 
 
 
 
Send the $225 via Western Union or MoneyGram Money Transfer and Mail The MTCN NUMBER
 
Or you call +2348063795671, the sender's name, the sender's country and your
 
delivery information too, We expect your urgent attention to this email to enable us
 
monitor this payment effectively.
Most importantly
 
 
 
 
Yours Faithfully,
Secretary-General United Nation
SOLOMON DIALO.

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