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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 Office <info1@triangle.co.uk>
Reply-To: carmanlapointe43@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:52:43 -0400
Subject: Compensation Fund!!!



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From the Desk of Mrs. Carman Lapointe, Secretary-General United Nations
Office of International Oversight Services (OIOS) Internal Audit,
Monitoring, Consulting and Investigations Division. Washington DC
20935-0001, USA.

03/10/2015


Beneficiary,

Sequel to the recent high rate of criminal acts like scam, fraud,
impostors and drug trafficking in Africa and sub-United States of
America regions, the United Nations secretary-general has delegated me
(Mrs. Carman Lapointe) as the Internal auditor, monitoring &
investigation division office of the Internal Oversight services (OIOS)
to assist you recover your lost funds as well as supporting get your
Compensation fund of $5.5M dollars shell out by the United Nations. For
more information about me kindly visit;
http://www.un.org/Depts/oios/pages/usg.html

Your fund has been discovered in Nigeria Africa so I was delegated to
Nigeria to make sure that fund beneficiaries like you get their funds
because the rate at which fund beneficiaries are being treated in
Nigeria and other African countries is not good, some of the
beneficiaries has lost everything they have, rendered homeless and some
declared bankrupt because the top bank officials continuously ask
beneficiaries to pay/send money to them as they claimed that they are
from one big offices & will help you get your fund but all these was
just lies and deceit to make you believe them.

Few days ago I arrived Nigeria and I met the new President of Nigeria
Mr. Muhammad Buhari (GCFR) as directed by the UN secretary-general Mr.
Ban Ki-Moon and President of America. The president has issued an
approvals for me to work in collaboration with the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission to make sure you get your compensation and
approved fund urgently, it was resolved by the Nigeria President UN to
approve the sum of Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars ($5.5M) assisted by the British government and the
International Credit Settlement (ICS).

Sincerely, I went through your payment file to discover that the top
Nigerian & British officials/bank that was supposed to pay you rather
decided to embezzle the fund, divert it to their personal account and
they are working with some top political officers to frustrate you but
you must be rest assured (100% guaranteed) that once I hear from you
with the required details as follows;

Your Full Name:
Your Full Address:
Nationality:
Telephone Number:
Occupation:
Age/Sex:

I have been given few weeks by the United Nations to make sure you get
your fund then I return back to the States so it will be better if you
get back with your info needed.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Carman Lapointe
United Nations Under-Secretary
General for Internal Oversight.

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