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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 <leee@ureach.com>
Reply-To: jeff.roberts38@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:20:53 -0700
Subject: FROM UNITED NATION/TREAT AS URGENT.

To your urgent Attention
This is to official inform you that the meeting we have been having with
Mr. Jim Yong Kim,the World Bank President which includes all the current
serving Presidents of Seven continents for the past Three (3) Weeks
finally ended two days ago and the issue discussed on the Congress was
on how to Disburse and Compensate all the Scam Victims out of the total
sum of $116,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Sixteen Million US Dollars) that
was so far RECOVERED from the arrested Fraudsters.

we are contacting you following the reports we received from Special
Anti-Fraud International Monitoring Group which submitted your
Name/email to us and you have been allocated with a sum of
US$2,000,000.00 (Two Million US Dollars only) as your Compensation.

You are therefore advised to contact our Representative Agent. MR.JEFF
ROBERTS who is in position to release your Compensation to you with the
email below:

Contact Name: MR.MR.JEFF ROBERTS
Email Address:jeff.roberts38@yahoo.com
Yours Sincerely,
Deputy Secretary-General
UNITED NATION

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