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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: "Ms. Carman L. Lapointe (UN)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mscarmanlapointe55@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 18:18:21 +0100
Subject: Compensation for unpaid beneficiaries

From: Ms. Carman L. Lapointe
Head of United Nations Under-Secretary-
General for Internal Oversight Services

To: Unpaid Beneficiary,

This is to inform you that I came to Nigeria yesterday from Canada, after

series of complaint from the FBI and other security agencies and internet

security and cyber crimes control from Asia, Europe, South America and the

United States of America respectively, against the Federal Government of

Nigeria and the British Government for the high volume of fraudulent

activities going that is on in these two nations.

For more information about me kindly click on the below link or copy and paste

on your web browser. http://www.un.org/Depts/oios/pages/usg.html

Right now, as directed by UN secretary General named Ban Ki-Moon we are

working in collaboration with the Nigerian Financial Crime Commission/agencies

and we have decided to waive away all your clearance fees/charges and

authorized/mandated the Nigerian ministry of finance to effect the transfer

/release of your overdue payment worth $5.5M only into your nominated bank

account without any delay as approved and instructed by the CANADIAN

government and UNITED NATIONS. Please take into account that a onetime

Notarization fee which is a mandatory/compulsory fee. Upon your request, I

will disclose to you the needed amount for notarization and also furnish you

with the payment information with which the fee would be paid.
Sincerely, you are indeed a lucky person because I have just discovered that

some top Nigerian and Canadian Government officials are interested in your

funds and they are working in collaboration with One Mr. Richard Graves from

USA to frustrate you and thereafter divert your funds into their personal

accounts.

Note that I have a very limited time to stay in Nigeria here so I would like

you to urgently respond to this message with your full name, full address,

direct phone number so that I can advice and give you directives on how best

to confirm your fund in your nominated bank account within the next 72 hours.

Once again, the only fee you are required to pay to receive your fund is the

Notarization fee which is a token.

You can reach me with below information:
Email Address: (mscarmanlapointe55@yahoo.com.hk)
Email Address: (carman@secretary.net)
Tel: +234-813-443-9503

Sincerely yours,
Ms. Carman L. Lapointe
Head of United Nations Under-Secretary
General for Internal Oversight Services

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