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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 NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <goddfreysmith@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 21:33:39 +0630
Subject: UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION

This is to notify you that we have your fund of Euro 5,500,000.00 with us here in the UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION UK, and the Check has been deposited in your name under the custody of our representative Bank,

Due to your inability in responding to the formal notice that was posted to you by our compensation department, there is someone here who said he is from your country and he stated that you have handed over the right to him to act on behalf of you as the owner of the fund, He confirmed that he is ready to pay for the procurement of the legal documents which is euro 195 for the release of the fund to him, he said he is going to pay the euro 195, he has been held right away for verification purpose, for us to verify if you have fully handed over the right for him to receive your funds.

Please be kindly advised that we would never authorize our paying Bank to release the Bank Draft to him since the fund clearly bears your name as the legal beneficiary, this fund in question was a compensation donation to you from the United Nation Compensation Commission.


Before our paying Bank would be able to hand over your Bank Draft to this person, we would need you to verify if you actually handed over the right to this person to receive your Bank Draft as the appointed beneficiary, henceforth, you are to respond back to this mail without any further hesitation, if we do not receive any response from you in the next 4 official working days, we would forward a notice to our paying Bank to hand over your Bank Draft to the person that is been presently held under
our custody.



I await your urgent response to this office immediately.



Mr. Goddfrey Smith
United Nation ( Europe ).
E-mail Address: goddfreysmith@aol.com

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