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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: Yoandy Stave <sonali@grandbuxe.com>
Reply-To: staveyoandy2@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 09:22:55 +0200
Subject: Attention



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Attention:

Dear Funds Beneficiary,

I saw your name among the listed unpaid contractors, inheritance, next
of kin and lottery beneficiaries.I would urge you to
accord this correspondence your full indulgence and attention.We bring
to your notice that your inheritance payment have
since been review by the United Nations Organizations (UNO) because of
the uncontrollable fraudulent activities going on in
Europe and Africa, and your email address was gotten as a result of the
previous investigation carried out by the FBI
homeland security on some fraudsters.

Series of meetings have been held over the past two months with the
secretary general of the United Nations Organization. This ended 3 days
ago. It is obvious that you have not received your inheritance fund
which is to the tune
of $9,600,000,00 Million USA Dollars, due to past corrupt Officials who
almost held the funds to themselves for their
selfish reason and some individuals who have taken advantage of your
fund all in an attempt to swindle your fund.

Your Inheritance Payment file was submitted to this office in respect of
your long over-due inheritance funds valued at
$9.6 million (Nine Million, six Hundred Thousand United States dollars).
We learnt that your funds has now been deposited
with our authorized funds custodians for several months due to your
inabilities to comply with the authorities and also due
to break of communication or inconsistency with the previous officials
handling the transaction.

We wish to bring to you the solution to this problem, right now we have
arranged your payment through our authorize funds
custodians where your funds has been deposited in your name. However,
while the funds custodians has tried to contact you
without success a person in the name of "Capen Gary Jay" an American
citizen sent a message and
called the funds custodians claiming that he has your mandate to claim
the funds. Do you know this person and did you
authorize him to claim the funds on your behalf?

It is very important that you contact us immediately as our authorize
funds custodians will have no option than to release
the funds to "Capen Gary Jay" if they do not hear from you in the next
72 hours.

Also for your information, you have to stop any further communication
with any other person(s) or office(s) to avoid any
hitches in receiving your payment. Note that because of impostors we
hereby issue you our Code of Conduct, which is (WBA-
103), so you have to indicate this code when contacting me by using it
as your subject. Waiting for
your expedite response.

Best Regards,

Yoandy Stave
SPECIAL AGENT FINANCIAL SURVEILLANCE
UNITED NATIONS FUNDS RECOVERY
AFRICAN PAYMENT CENTER.

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