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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: "COMPENSATION OFFICE CHASE© 2015 JPMorgan Chase & Co." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <chase13982@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:47:47 +0100
Subject: COMPENSATION OFFICE CHASE/ UNITED NATIONS 2016

COMPENSATION OFFICE CHASE/ UNITED NATIONS /2014/2015 SCAM VICTIMS
COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

ATTN:,

REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654 $1,000,000.00 USD.

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED
NATIONS in Chase Bank to pay 150 victims of scam $1,000,000.00 USD
(One Million Dollars Only each).You are listed and approved for this
payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount because
you are an account holder with our bank, get back
to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your
$1,000,000.00 USD compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, want you to know that during the
last U.N. meetings held at Eugene, OREGON, it was alarming on the
money lost by various individuals to the scams artists operating in
syndicates all nover the world today. In other to compensate victims,
the UNITED NATIONS Body is now paying 150 victims $1,000,000.00 USD
each in accordance with the UNITED NATIONS recommendations. Due to the
corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in USA, the payments are
to be paid by CHASE Bank USA as corresponding paying bank under
funding assistance by BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

Benefactor of this compensation award will have to be first cleared
and recommended for payment by CHASE BANK . According to the number
of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, over a half of
the victims are from the United States, we still have an outstanding
of 36 scam victims left to be paid. Other victims who have not been
contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and
possible consideration.
We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we get response
from you on how you intend receiving your compensation payment.
Send a copy of your response and payment code to our remittance officer:


SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE:
ECB/06654 $1,000,000.00 USD.
Best Regards
© 2015 JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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