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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: "ANDREW" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <philandrewemail@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:11:06 -0700
Subject: WORLD MESSAGE {Attention:Beneficiary}

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, the World
Bank and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have agreed to
compensate each and every one of you, with the sum of US$1,500,000.00.
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 United States Congress 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 miss 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 email address is in our list and that is why we are contacting
you on this purpose, it has been agreed upon and has been signed by
the United Nations Board of Directors and The World Bank Trustees.
 
You have to contact Mr. PHIL ANDREW he is our payment agent in Nigeria,
as he isour UNITED NATIONS representative in Nigeria, you must contact him
immediately for your compensation payment through Automatic Teller
Machine (ATM) Card.Send him your correct mailing addresses where you
want him to send the DEBIT CARD to you and your telephone number and
tell him your file Reference Number below (RE-0809_G).
 
Contact Mr. PHIL ANDREW
 
Email: philandrewemail@gmail.com
 
 
Hoping to hear from you as soon as you received your compensation
payment, you are free to email me, if you have any question.
 
Regards,
Sec. Mr. Ban Ki-moon(Secretary General, United Nations)
CC: Mr. James B. Comey(FBI, Director)

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