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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 Nation" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <amafizal.hsbcuk@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:31:32 +0100
Subject: REPLY

ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY,
 
You may not Understand why this mail came to you. A joint meeting was held by the United Nation top officials with the Senate Committee on Foreign Debts Reconciliation and Implementation Panel on Beneficiary/Inheritance fund under category concerning all the scam victims worldwide, which was addressed and headed by the two bodies. It became imperative to contact you on the subject matter.
 
This email is to all the people that have been scammed or extorted money from due to advance fee fraud, the UNITED NATIONS and the World Bank have agreed to compensate each and everyone of you, with the sum of US$500,000.00. This includes every foreign contractors/Next of kin and people that have had an unfinished transaction or International businesses that failed due to Government problems or irregularities.
 
In the meeting it was concluded that all potential Compensation beneficiary fund should be credited into an ATM DEBIT CARD, which they can use to withdraw the fund in any AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE (ATM) nearest to them in their Country respectively, with a sole charge of US$150.00 dollars for the passing of the Bill by the United Nations Board of trustees and by the British house of commons and also for the delivery of their ATM card to their house address respectively.
 
 
It become paramount to contact you on the subject matter for you to be careful from the kind of email you attend to now and onward, because if you misses this opportunity, i will not attend to your issues again. Do what's right. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first.
 
 
Your name is in our list and that is why we are contacting you, it has been agreed upon and have been signed by the United Nations Board of Directors and The World Bank Trustees.
 
You are requested to reconfirm the following.
 
Your Full Name:..........
Your Full Address..........
Your private Telephone number
 
Regards,
 
Andy Houston.
United Nation Representative United Kingdom..UK

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