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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: "Barrister Adams Thompson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info.customerunitservice0191@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 08:01:35 -0600
Subject: COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS .FOR SCAMMED VICTIMS 9

REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 1089044

SCAMMED VICTIM/US$10,000,000.00 BENEFICIARIES.REF/PAYMENTS CODE:
1508044$10,000,000.00.

Beneficiary

WB/UNITED NATIONS 2010 SCAM VICTIMS
COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS .

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the United Nations & World Bank to pay 410 scam victims
US$10,000,000.00 (TEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) each. You are listed
and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this
amount, get back to us as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your
US$10,000,000.00 compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, we want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held in Geneva Switzerland,
it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on the lost of funds by various individuals to the scam artists operating in syndicates all over the
world today. In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the World Bank is now paying 410 victims of these operations US$10,000,000.00
each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems with so many banks, the Payments are to be
supervised by the 'United Nations' Officials and the WORLD BANK, as the
corresponding paying bank is from Asia Or europe. According to the number of applicants at
hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United
States, we still have more 296 left to be paid the compensations of
US$10,000,000.00 each .Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates
who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations,

You are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him For any reason
whatsoever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other
criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended. Other victims who
have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and
possible consideration. If you have already been notified of this payment
programmer previously,do proceed with your claim as required.

As directed by the United Nations Global Settlement Committee, You can receive your
compensations payments via any of this payment Options you may Choose:
(A.)

CERTIFIED CHEQUE, (B.)ATM CARD PAYMENTS (C.) WIRE TRANSFERS. We shall
feed you with further modalities as soon as we hear from you.

Reply Email : debtrecoverycommittee06@worker.com

Yours
faithfully,

Barrister Adams Thompson


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