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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 United" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <unitednations099@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 03:20:57 -0200
Subject: UNITED WE STAND!

Dear

This program was launched by the United Nation and supported
by World Bank Auditors. It has come to the world wide notice
that most people have been rendered homeless by online
scammers such as dating, transfer and lottery award.

This victims are made to pay averagely all their money to
get some so called fund. Now the United Nation and World
bank Auditors has launched two programs regarding this
issue.
The programs are as follows:
(1)Eradication of scamming strategies by advance technology
input.
(2)Compensation of scam victims

The United Nation and World Bank Auditors has budgeted a
total amount of $16 Billion for the compensation of some
people that fell victim to online scammers.
With the help of the sophisticated technology initiated into
this program, we were able to extract emails of some people
that may have fallen victim to scammers. This is to notify
you of your enlistment as one of the beneficiaries of this
program, your email address was found and you are one of
those to be compensated.

Your total compensation fund is ($1.5 Million) this
fund was deposited with the UN
All you have to do is to contact the bank with their contact
details as detailed below:


Send them this listed information;
Full name:
Residential address:
Occupation:
Direct Telephone & Mobile number: from you, the
compensation fund will be released to you in accordance with
the banking policies.

The United Nation and World Bank are truly sorry for what
these scammers may have caused you and hope this fund will
be of great help to you. Please do not take this message as
one of the scam email, this message and its content is real,
legal, legitimate and risk free. Their email address is
attached automatically to this message so that once you hit
your reply button, it will be there.

UNITED WE STAND!

Thank you,

Eric Walters,

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