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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: "Robert Nelson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <internationalfundsta12@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 14:00:40 +0100
Subject: INTERNATIONAL FUNDS TRANSFER

INTERNATIONAL FUNDS TRANSFER / AUDIT UNIT
UNITED NATIONS
(World Bank Assisted Programmed)
Directorate of International Payment and Transfers
UN Plaza, DC2-2060, New York,


Attention: Beneficiary,

My Name is Mr Robert Nelson, I'm the vice chairman of the united
nations/ international monetary fund investigating unit, we arrived
into Nigeria on 12th January 2015, Following series of Complaints,by
Beneficiaries who are yet to receive their outstanding
Contract/Inheritance/lottery Funds, from the central bank and other
commercial banks in Nigeria The International monitory fund
investigating Unit discovered particularly in your own case that some
Corrupt bank/ Government Officials had the intention of diverting your
Funds to their own private Accounts abroad.

The Team that carried out the investigation recovered some Payment
Files which have since been approved for payment which yours was
inclusive, secondly, in the same file of yours, there is a letter here
stating that you are dead, so based on this, we are contacting you to
verify the true position of your status, and you have only 48hours to
reply this mail or we will work with what we saw in your file that you
are dead, and i will personally append my signature to push your fund
into the Nigerians government treasury account as an unclaimed fund.

Note that the United Nations special payment unit has authorized
us to handle your Payment File and based on our recommendation, your
Outstanding fund have been credited in our Paying Bank Escrow Account
in your Favor pending your reconfirmation to this office of your true
position in this matter.

You are hereby advised to reply this mail immediately to confirm
whether or not you actually wrote that Letter forfeiting your Funds
otherwise you should indicate your interest in receiving your fund.

(1) Full Name
(2) Residential Address
(3) Telephone Number (Mobile Number if any)
(4) Age and Marital Status
(5) Core Job or Occupation
(6) A valid form of identification.
(7) Your Account details.

You are advised to fully co-operate with this Team so that we can
serve you better in this Second Quota payment of this year 2016, and
we assure you that we must bring to book all these corrupt officials
of central bank if we found them guilty.

contact our headquarter with this email
address;(internationalfundsta12@gmail.com)

Waiting
Mr Robert Nelson

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