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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" <inquiriess@un.org>
Reply-To: unitednationorg84@gmail.com
Date: 16 Mar 2017 01:26:58 -0700
Subject: Your Atm Card Is Ready

Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.
(WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAM)
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
870 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA 20-A NEW YORK NY 10017
WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT

ATTENTION:

The UNITED NATIONS Director; After proper investigations, we
discovered that your impending payment that have been withheld by
imposters, claiming to be Professor Charles Soludo (Governor of
the Central bank of Nigeria), Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr. Frank Nweke,
Mr. Harry Dickson, Lord Ruben, Bruce Hoek, None existing
officials of the Oceanic Bank of Nigeria and Zenith Bank, UK
winning Lottery, Andy Lear of Hsbc bank, Coca-Cola winning
lottery and among a list of others is now under our custody with
the help of the UNITED NATIONS and WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAM.

Meanwhile, This is a true compensation Approved from the UNITED
NATION to compensate you due to your paste with the wrong people
who paraded them selves on what they are not so because of this,
the United Nation approved our Bank to process ATM CARD with
valid cash of usd$2,000.000.00 million on your favor in order to
compensate you so that if you have been scammed before this is a
compensation and you will be making your withdrawals from the ATM
CARD as you will be allowed in making withdrawals minimum of
usd$20,000 (Twenty Thousand usd$) per a day or every 24hrs from
any ATM MACHINE around you.

Meanwhile, a man and woman came to my office this morning with an
application for transfer of the fund into her account on your
behalf, claiming to be your representative here.

Here are the information’s she submitted for the transfer of your
fund Name MR. Peter Widodo.. Bank name: BOA BANK, New-York.
Account number: 6503809428.

Please, do re-confirm to this office as a matter of urgency if
this woman is truly from you as this office will not be held
responsible for paying your fund into wrong account.

Your ATM CARD will be deliver to your address through courier
delivery services within 3 working days.

BELOW ARE YOUR ATM CARD DATA :

AMOUNT CREDIT : USD$2.000.000.00 MILLION
YOUR ATM CARD ACCOUNT # : 4662 1234 5678 9000
CARD LIMIT PER A DAY : USD$20,000
EXPIRING DATE : 12/06/2018
PIN CODE # : 7501

You are required to send me your full details such as :

Your full name

Your full contact Address

Your Telephone/mobile number.

Once you send these above information your ATM CARD will be
process and deliver to your Address and you can as well move down
to any nearest ATM PAYING MACHINE and apply your pin code # :
7501 to make your withdrawals without any delay, Please note that
you will be responsible for the cost of shipment with insurance
of your Atm card.

I am waiting to hear from you and your details as required
through this email address.

[unitednationorg84@gmail.com]

Congratulations!!


Mrs Grace
Director Swift Card Payment Center.

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