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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 Jan Eliasson <"www."@crocus.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Mr Jan Eliasson <officefile_2017@mynet.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 21:18:27 +0900 (JST)
Subject: UN Crime Fighting Officer.

Urgent Attention:


My name is Mr Jan Eliasson, I am a crime fighter and Deputy
Secretary-General of the United Nations. I was mandated to come to
Benin-Africa to investigate frauds that are being committed here in
Benin at intervals. I am presently working with the Benin inspector
general of police, some FBI and CIA agents to ensure that the
perpetrators of this Evil activities are urgently apprehended.

I am very honored to be
invited to eradicate fraud completely in Africa which I have vowed to
do without any fear or favor," but it baffles me to discover that your
impending funds from Africa, which was intercepted, has not been
released to you till this moment after being cleared by the Benin
Presidency, Federal Ministry of Justice and the Finance Ministry. It
is also clearly indicated that you have made several attempts and
spend much money to transfer your funds to your account but to no
avail.

With the help of the Benin Police, special FBI and CIA agents in
Benin, We have managed to apprehend some scam syndicates who made some
confessional statements and indicted Ex-Governor of Central Bank of
Benin ( Professor Benjamine Otaka and his successor Dr. Michael
Oduwah. They have confessed how they have impersonated the names of
some UN Executive members like MR BAN KI-MOON, Mrs. Inga-Britt Ahlenius
and Ms.Carman L. Lapointe Lapointe Mrs Paulette Beal to defraud their victims.

Please, we have noticed that Benin are very ruthless and have
defrauded so many foreigners, we have also discovered the
irregularities in foreign payment files intentionally masterminded by
these scammers and urgently called the attention of the World Bank
President and Mr. Bank Ki-Moon and they both came to a resolution that
the Federal Government of Benin must pay a total amount of $10.5M to
each of the people whose names were found in the list till this
irregularity has been corrected.

This approved amount must be made available to all beneficiaries
within the next 5 banking days or an Economic Sanction will be placed
on Benin by the UN and other international Organizations.

NOTE: On no account must you be requested to pay any fee by any Bank
or individual in Benin. The only fee you must pay to receive your fund
which covers every other fee is a UN POLICE FUND CLEARANCE REPORT FEE
OF $50.This must be paid directly to my office here for the
procurement and endorsement of all your fund approval/release
documents by the UN.

WARNING!!!!!!. The UN has never for once sent any Diplomat to Benin
for any payment. IF you have any dealings with anyone claiming to be
any of these persons, please STOP immediately or we shall cancel this
payment of USD$10.5M that has already been approved to you. Note that,
the UN POLICE FUND CLEARANCE REPORT FEE is must and very important, so
take note of that.

NOTE: We have asked for the above UN POLICE FUND CLEARANCE REPORT FEE
to make available the most complete and up-to date records possible.
immediately Contact me via E-mail for instructions on how to send the
$50.any other contact or payment you make apart from the UN
POLICE FUND CLEARANCE REPORT FEE is at your own risk. WE will like
your respond to this call to avoid any further delaying and when
replying this mail, include your,

full name,
phone number,
position and address so that we can register it here.

kindly take urgent action in
sending the $50 through money gram or western union only enable
immediate release of your funds,

THE DETAILS TO SEND THE MONEY IS:

RECEIVER NAME: PETER OLO
CITY: COTONOU
COUNTRY: BENIN REPUBLIC
AMOUNT: US$50.00 USD
TEXT Q: Red
ANS: Blue
MTCN:......
SENDER NAME.....

You are therefore advised to comply immediately without further delay
and your funds will be released forthwith.

Thanks for your anticipated
compliance to this message.

Regards,
Mr Jan Eliasson,
UN Deputy Secretary-General.
UN Crime Fighting Officer.

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