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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: "Dr Wesley Kalfayan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wesleykalfayan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 03:43:39 -0700
Subject: YOUR REF: WB/IMF/UNCC/3580L9

Directorate of International Payments and Transfers
Debt Reconciliation Committee
United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC)
Switzerland.

YOUR REF: WB/IMF/UNCC/3580L9

Dear beneficiary,
we wish to notify you as one of the beneficiary of Ten Million United State Dollars ($10,000,000.00 USD) in compensation from United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Your email appeared among the list of beneficiaries who will receive a payment of $1,800,000.00 USD and has been approved already as concluded by the UNCC Benin Chapter and the IMF.Among the list are individuals and companies that their unpaid funds have been located to our authorized official paying bank which have received all the overdue outstanding payments owed to firms, contractors, and individuals from inheritance, next of kin, Super Hurricane sandy and lottery beneficiaries.

This development is as result of the effort made by United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as it is stipulated in Section 2 act 4 Sub-Category E1 of United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) guidelines and regulations of 08-04-20014.

The Western Union Office in Benin have been fully mandated by the UNCC and IMF to transfer your compensation to you via Western Union money transfer system. We have concluded to effect your payment through Western Union® Money Transfer by sending $5,000.00 USD twice daily until the total sum of ($10,000,000.00 USD) is completely transferred to you.

In view of the above, you are required by this email to verify your identity by providing the information as requested below since We cannot send the payment with your email address alone:

REQUIREMENTS
(1) Your Full Names:
(2) Your Address/Country:
(3) Your Telephone Number:

Send all response via email to: wesleykalfayan@gmail.com

Note: Your payment files will be returned to the UNCC and IMF office within 7 days if we do not hear from you. Henceforth, we advice you to suspend any dealings with any group of person(s) either from any bank or any other financial institution prostates in benin or overseas that might be contacting you in this purpose and endeavor to keep this information confidential until we finalize this transaction to avoid it getting to the wrong hands or even make you lose your money.

We anticipate your earliest cooperation in this regards to expedite action on your compensation payment.

Yours,

Dr.Wesley Kalfayan.
Executive Director United Nations Human Settlements Programme
United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC).
United States Clearing Office.
Mobile Number: +(321) 348-8291
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