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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: "Mr. Corey Williams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <coreywilliams695@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:21:37 +0100
Subject: WORLD BANK PAYMENT APPROVAL

World Bank Assisted Program
Directorate Of International
Payment And Transfer.
Debt Reconciliation/Audit Unit
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017, U.S.A.
 
Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX028 United Nations.
 
Dear Beneficiary,
 
We are authorized by United Nations Secretary General, and the Governing body of the United Nations Debt Reconciliation Unit, to investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment, recommended and approved in your favor. During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials of the Bank and Government regulatory organs in Nigeria, A who are trying to divert your funds into their private accounts.
 
Be advised that we are mandated by the UNITED NATIONS and IMF To pay you. The United Nations and IMF have agreed to pay you Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$5,500,000.00). You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the lucky persons to be paid this amount, so get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payment process of your Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$5,500,000.00 This includes every foreign contractors that may have not yet received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems or irregularities etc. We found your email in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed by the United Nations Board of Directors and Trustees from the WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME.
 
Be also note that your Fund has been approved for release through any of the following method (Via Bank to Bank Wire Transfer, Via Automatic Teller Machine ATM MASTERCARD, Via Electronic On-Line Banking System, Visiting Any Of Our Payment Center/Office Location For The Claim Of Your Fund in Person As We Have Different Payment Centers around The World) and the Chief Protocol Officer in charge of the Fund Release Unit Dr. Edward Andy has been authorize to handle the release process of your fund per your chosen method you want to use to receive your Fund from the above listed means. You are hereby advised without delay to stop all contact going on between you and anybody on Internet over the claim of your Fund because you will end up at nothing with them as they have no Fund for you and you must understand that we are here to ensure that you receive your fund without any further problem, so follow our instruction and contact Dr. Edward Andy for the claim of your Fund.
 
Also be informed that a woman with the name Elizabeth Williams of 5.9 inches tall, with Long hair and white in color from the United States of America have earlier today contacted this office claiming to be from you, stating that you are dead but before your abrupt death you made her your representative and authorized her as your legal beneficiary to claim your fund valued Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$5,500,000.00) only from this reputable commission and and she also stated that she is a member of your family, so here comes the big question, are you dead? and did you sign any dead of assignment in favor of this woman? thereby making her the current beneficiary to your fund with her following contact details before you passed on, please get back to us if you are still alive and state to us if you authorize this woman to represent you for the claim of your fund or not, to enable us know the next line of action to follow for the transfer/release of your fund.
 
Contact information:
 
Dr. Edward Andy
Chief Protocol Officer, Fund Release Department.
Email: (edwardandy74@yahoo.es )
 
 
Below is the Registration Information of your Fund and you are to provide this details to Dr. Edward Andy when contacting him as evidence of receiving email from us as a beneficiary to this fund.
 
FUND AWARD REFERENCE CODE: UNAP 563EUS, REGISTERED TAG: UNZEFCB79268, SECURITY CODE: SCUN/2015/90363/, TRANSACTION CODE 8563/TCUNEU/9563/56253/, CERTIFICATE DEPOSIT CODE: CDCUN/EU673/IEDD/-09/15, DEPOSIT CERTIFICATE N0: 735642
 
As soon as you establish contact with him, ensure that you provide a reconfirmation of your present details as below to the Officer to effect the change and Re-process your fund release to you.
 
Full Name:
Address:
Phone Number:
Occupation:
Banking Details:
Identification Card/Driver's License:
 
We expect your urgent attention to this email to enable us monitor this payment effectively. Most importantly we advise you to follow the instruction of Dr. Edward Andy as we have assigned him to handle the process of the release of your Fund to you. Once you contact him, do follow up his instruction as he is the only person in charge of the release of your Fund to you without any further delay.
 
Yours Faithfully,
 
Mr. Corey Williams

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