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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: "F P D" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <20fpd16@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:21:39 +0100
Subject: UNITED NATIONS AUDIT UNIT {£ 2.5 MILLION GBP}

Debt Reconciliation/Audit Unit
29741 SULEJA, Airforce Base Avenue,
FCT, Nigeria West Africa

Our Ref: XB/GM/UN/DDX039 United Nations.

It has been observed that you have not received your fund which is in the tune of £ 2.5 Million GBP due to past corrupt Governmental Officials who almost held the fund to themselves for their selfish reason and some individuals who have taken advantage of your fund all in an attempt to swindle your fund which has led to
so many losses from your end and unnecessary delay in the releasing of your fund.

We have been able to track down so many of this scam artist in various parts of west African countries which includes(NIGERIA, REPUBLIC OF BENIN, TOGO, GHANA CAMEROON AND SENEGAL) and they are all in our custody here in ABUJA Nigeria. We have been able to recover so much money from these scam artists. The United Nation Anti-crime commission and the United State Government have ordered the
money recovered from the Spammers to be shared among 100 Fortunate people around the globe.

This email is being directed to you because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard disk in our custody here in Nigeria and with the information gathered from this Scam artist, we notice that you have been scammed of so much money and have decided to compensate you with a little
token to recover the lost of your fund.

The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the current acting president of Nigeria his Excellency President Mohammad Buhari to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to you and other
individuals and organizations who have been found not to have receive their Contract Sum, Lottery/Gambling, Inheritance and the likes.

Below is the Registration Information’s of your Fund and you are to provide the following details to Mr Richard McKay on contacting him as evidence of receiving email from us as a beneficiary to this compensation fund.

FUND AWARD REFERENCE CODE: UNAP 563EUS, REGISTERED TAG: UNZEFCB79268, SECURITY CODE: SCUN/2016/90363/, TRANSACTION CODE 8563/TCUNEU/9563/56253/, CERTIFICATE DEPOSIT CODE: CDCUN/EU673/IEDD/-01616, DEPOSIT CERTIFICATE N0: 735642

Your full Name-Your Address-Home/Cell Phone-Age/Sex

To effect the release of your fund valued at £ 2.5 Million GBP , you are advised to contact the director of payment via his email address with the information below, Mr. Richard McKay 20fpd16@gmail.com

This morning our local time I sent a fax to the office of the president Mohammad Buhari who issued a mandate to compensate scam victim like you through your preferred method of payment that will be shipped to you alongside the documents to back them up, the fax I sent to him was to let him know, who will be responsible for the Insurance document and Federal tax document on his
response to me through same fax he said he will talk to the head of the ministry offices where this documents are procured.


You are therefore advice not to toy with this developments as a mandate was also issued to terminate the fund immediately if you fail to claim your fund soonest.I have done my best as a clergy drafted newly to this position to assist people like you the rest is left for you. urgent response will enable me forge
ahead towards the on-wards delivery of your payment to your residential address.

I await your response to this email so we forge ahead with your payment delivery.

Yours sincerely,

Assistant Secretary
Mariam Copeland
Secretary-General United Nations
Mr. Ban KI Moon
Debt Reconciliation/Audit Unit

********************** IMPORTANT--PLEASE READ ************************
This electronic message, including its attachments, is UNITED NATIONS CONFIDENTIAL
and may contain PROPRIETARY or LEGALLY PRIVILEGED information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message or any of the information included in it is unauthorized and strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and permanently delete this message and its attachments, along with any copies thereof. Thank you.
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