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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: "Fact Finding Commission" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <tessykipkalya@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:57:03 -0500
Subject: RE: PLEASE CLARIFY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

Date: 11th December, 2015.

Dear Sir/Madam,

RE-CONTRACT/INHERITANCE PAYMENT ON U.N/PED/397/WARREF2015.
VALUED US$11.5 MILLION

Complement of the season.

By legislative resolution reached on the 2nd of December,2015
following the complaint and petition received by the
United Nations from foreign beneficiaries
over the non-payment of their claims, this United Nations
commission on fact finding and foreign payment was
inaugurated to release immediately all payments
that has received approval, like yours.

We are pleased to inform you that we have verified
every aspect of your payment and have submitted a

written report to the United Nations, the House
of Senate and the Federal House of Representative sub
committees on Finance and Foreign Payment. We are
going to transfer your payment upon receiving your
confirmation because we are confused on which account
to make the transfer into as we received a Switzerland
Bank Account details from one MR. GARRY FAULKNER
who claimed to be the rightful beneficiary thereby
contradicting your earlier account detail in our data bank.

PLEASE CLARIFY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

(1). Did you at any point transfer your right of
ownership to one MR. GARRY FAULKNER to claim and
receive the payment on your behalf?

(2). His claim was backed with a "Deed of Agreement "
in his favour thereby indicating the fund destination
to the following account:
Account name: MR. GARRY FAULKNER
Account No: 202-0000-60233 USD
Bank Name: ANZ BANK, 3200 Basel, Switzerland.
Swift Code:ANZPUS3XXS

Are you aware of this?

You are required as a matter of urgency to confirm the
legitimacy of the above claim and the reason for such
change. In event you did not authorize such claim,
please confirm to us immediately by way of application
for contract/inheritance payment reconfirming to us the
following data:

1) Your Full Name
2) Phone, Fax and Mobile
3) Company Name, Position and Address
4) Profession, Age and Marital Status
5) Work ID or International Passport

You are required to submit this authentication before the
payment will be effected as we are bound to recognize
MR. GARRY FAULKNER’S claim and release the payment if
we do not receive your submission to this enquiry as
quickly as possible.

All letters must be attention and sent to the Chairman of
the Commission Barr. Tony Lee. We shall provide you his
contact details immediately we receive your response to
this email.

We look forward to hear from you soon.

Regards,
Miss. Tessy Kipkalya
Fact Finding and Contract/Inheritance Payment Commission.
United Nations, USA.

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