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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."@jupiter.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Mr Jan Eliasson <mrjaneliasson21@yahoo.es>
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 08:10:21 +0900 (JST)
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION CONCERNED BENEFICIARY,

URGENT ATTENTION CONCERNED BENEFICIARY,

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,Nigeria-Africa to investigate frauds that are being committed here in
Nigeria at intervals. I am presently working with the Nigerian
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 favour," 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 Nigerian 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 Nigerian Police, special FBI and CIA agents in
Nigeria, We have managed to apprehend some scam syndicates who made
some confessional statements and indited Ex-Governor of Central Bank
of Nigeria(Professor Charles Soludo and his successor Dr.Lamido
Sanusi, Mr.Godwin Emefiele. 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 Mrs
Paulette Beal to defraud their victims.

Please, we have noticed that Nigerians 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 Nigeria 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 14 banking days or an Economic Sanction will be placed
on Nigeria 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 Nigeria. The only fee you must pay to receive your
fund which covers every other fee is a UN POLICE FUND CLEARANCE
REPORT FEE OF $225.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 Nigeria
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.

NB: Every communication should be made through this e-mail address:
(mrjaneliasson21@yahoo.es) on how to send the $225 only.

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 $225.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.

Do not be afraid for the fee, when replying this mail, include your
full name, phone number,position and address so that we can register
it here.

Thanks for your anticipated compliance to this message.

Regards,
Mr Jan Eliasson
UN Deputy Secretary-General.
UN Crime Fighting Officer.
Phone: +229-993-813-87.
http://www.un.org/

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