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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: "Office Contact" <office1@suncor.com>
Reply-To: h65430230@gmx.com
Date: 02 Aug 2017 04:36:36 +0200
Subject: RE: Attn: Funds Beneficiary.

Attn: Funds Beneficiary.

With my record here since my inaugurations as i Managing Director
and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer Mr.Joaquim Levy and
i am working with the new United States President Donald J. Trump
and Ban Ki-moon's United Nations Secretary-General because Mr.
President Donald J. Trump want to make sure that all the
Beneficiary that have not receive there payment receive it and
they will stop calling our Governments a bad names, that is why
Mr.President Donald J. Trump want to make sure you receive your
Contract/Inheritance/Lottery funds, that is why he ask me to
contact you through E-mail, but we have a meeting 2 weeks ago
with United States President and United Nations ,about some
people that have not receive there funds many years ago and your
name is among the 520 people that have not receive there payment
,I have find out that your outstanding
Contract/Inheritance/Lottery funds has not being released nor
paid to you by the Government and some office with the government
bank due to corruptions which is very endemic in the last regime
hence that is my focal point as i have to rid this Country of
Corruptions, after due scrutiny by the transition committee which
i set up that submitted their report to me last week
indicates that you have not being paid and this is the conditions
given to me by the G7 Government which I attended the meeting in
England UK ,before their will attend to my wish as i submitted to
them which one of them is Debt forgiveness to enable me carry out
the functions of this new Government effectively.

In view of the above and as a matter of urgency you are required
to put a claims to your payment as i have decided to handle
andadminister your payment as my first priority will administer
and release your payment to you directly through my office
without any inhibitions, confirm to me all your personal data for
your payment through my office only as i have taken over your
payment file for that purpose, as soon as i hear from you, i will
inform you the process and what you will need to do before i will
give a Presidential Instructions for the immediate
transfer/payment of your due funds to you and this will be done
through normal Government payment process
through my office.

Finally once i hear from you i will give you my direct coded
telephone number where you can be reaching me directly for
security reasons and specially with any interceptions by my aids
and personal assistants, furnish me with every of your details
that will help me in your payment, note that you will SIGN and
ENDORSE with your Signature the original HARD COPY DOCUMENTS of
your Payment Release Bond (5 COPIES) page by page which by my
record you have not done before now hence that is the normal
Government process of Paying such huge sum of funds to
beneficiaries.

Looking forward to hear from you and please accept my apologies
for the delays in past in receiving your due funds as i have
decided to make amends now and release your funds to you without
any prepayment once you have SIGN and ENDORSE your Government
Approved Payment Release Bond (5 COPIES) page by page as the
process entails. I am waiting to heard from you to enable me
start making the arrangement to transfer your upstanding
Contract/Inheritance/Lottery funds to you, please if you are any
way that you have been scammer before kindly let me know so that
i will know how to compensate you once again .I am waiting to
hear from you once again.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter via this e-mail
address: h65430230@gmx.com

Managing Director and World Bank
Group Chief Financial Officer.
Joaquim Levy
United States President
Donald J. Trump
Ban Ki-Moon
United Nations Secretary-General

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