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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" <admin@ingle.de>
Reply-To: infoaprl06@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 06:42:09 -0500
Subject: LATEST UPDATE


(INTERNATIONAL FUND TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT)
(WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAM)
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
870 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA 20-ANEW YORK NY 10017
WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT

Attention:Beneficiary

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family. You may not understand the reason why this mail came to you. We have been in a board meeting for the passed (7) months which ended 2 days ago.

This email is sent to all the people that have been scammed in every part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS agreed upon to compensate them with the sum of US$1,000,000.00 (One Million United State Dollars Only). This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems E.T.C. We found your name and information in our list, please note that is the reason why we are contacting you to let you know that the fund will be released to you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.

You are advised to reconfirm your personal information once again to enable me forward it to the PAYING BANK for the immediate release of your fund to you. Therefore, don't forget to send your full Name and telephone number/your correct mailing address and also your international passport. to see if they match with the one in our system.

so quickly forward the listed information so that the paying bank will start with the release of your fund.


Thanks and God bless you and your family.

Making the world a better place.
MR.BAN KI-MOON,
SECRETARY GENERAL.
NATIONS ORGANIZATION.

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