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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: <unation89@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:42:47 -0600
Subject: DEAR BENEFICIARY....FINAL PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

International Reconciliation And Logistics Vault
United National Office (UN)
Compensation Settlement of Escrow Accounts.

Attn: Dear,

It is a pleasure to write you that we have reconciled with our
logistic department on the reimbursement of some fund spent by you
during the cause of your inadequate dealings with some imposters who
claim to be staff in banks and other regional payment centers. Our
reconciliation teams with the prospectus instrument of the United
Nations after freezing suspected imposters account. This support was
fully effective with the help of World Bank after a summit meeting in
London, on the financial analysis and financial stability issues
fluctuating the economy with the international global standard.

After gathering of this sum, our logistic department gave us a list of
beneficiaries to be paid a sum of 350.000(Three hundred and fifty thousand naira)United States Dollars
who fell victims to these imposters due to unawareness. And mode of
payment was as well specified for proper conducts and financial
regulations to kick against criminality during process of payment. We
have arranged your payment through our swift card centers, with the
latest instruction from United Nations Office And International
Monetary Fund Reconciliation Office.

The card center will send you an Atm Master Card which you will use to
withdraw your money in any Atm Center,We will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to
withdraw your money via ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, and the maximum daily limit is
Five Thousand United States Dollars (5,000.00)Banks and Union Pay Credit
outlets in the world; You are hereby selected as an honor for this
payment approval worth $350.000 United States Dollars,(Three hundred and fifty thousand dollars) which you
are to acknowledge the receipt of this mail for immediately release of
your above stated compensated funds so that there will be not mistake
while delivering your funds to your home.You are to provide Mr.David with the below
details for the delivery.

Full Name:...................
Current home Address:...............
Personal Telephone Number:.................
Age:...................
Sex:....................
Occupation:................
Country:.................
Attach International Passport or any ID card If Any…



Below is the contact information to Mr.David who is in charge of ATM activation.

Contact Name: David Cannon.
Contact E-mail:unation89@gmail.com


You are to contact mr.David with his email address above then he will guide you on how your Card will be activated and delivered to your home address.

Note: The only fee you are to send for the activation fee is just 245 USD so make sure you don’t send him more than $245 USD. Your card is already with him and you can track it with the tracking details below

UPS Tracking number: 1z2876490390947593
UPS tracking site: http://www.ups.com/index.html


For your information, you have to stop any further communication with
any other person or office claiming to be the right office to avoid
any hitches in receiving your payment. Because of Impostors, we hereby
issued you our code of conduct, which is (Atm-0099) so you have to
indicate this code when replying by using it as your subject.

Kindly be informed that recipients shall be liable to pay 245 US dollars
which is obvious cost arising for the delivery of the donation parcel
and there will be no hidden fees. This is due to Legal law protecting
all donation funds misappropriation and for further information about
your beneficiary award that you are nominated by WORLD BANK.

Awaiting your urgent response.

Yours in Service,
Mr. Gen Leon
Secretary Mrs. Alfreda Bobo
United Nations Office USA.

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