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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: RAYMOND CARLOS <"www."@orion.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: RAYMOND CARLOS <rose1cynthia@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 07:25:27 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Hope all is well with you and family?

UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION UNIT, IN AFFILIATION WITH WITH WORLD BANK AND BENIN GOVERNMENT.

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family?, You may not
understand why this mail came to you.

We have been having a meeting for the past 7 months which ended 2daysbago with the then secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.


This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$20.5million each.

This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems etc.

We found your name and email in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been approve.

You are advised to contact Diplomat Rose Cynthia on her email address rose1cynthia@yahoo.com, with your

Full Name......
Country....
Mobile phone No....
House address...
Your Nearest airport..

Your personal code to the box is XLA21492014SD, and the color is
silver. NB indicate this code to the diplomat Rose, so that she will
know that you are the rightful owner of the box.

Note that this is from the Bank Of Africa funding and support
programe where your name was selected through a carefully African
web gathering of data in electronic base systems.


Best Regards,
Rev.Fr.Basie Forster
(BENEFICIARY DEPARTMENT)
UNITED NATION.

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