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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: Father Williams Randolf <fatherwilliamsrandolf@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:55:10 -0700
Subject: YOUR IMMEDIATE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION !!!

UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION/
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND/
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL
DUTIES OFFICE MADRID, SPAIN.

I am Rt. Rev. Father Williams Randolf, Chairman Board Of Trustee (BOT) World
Bank fact finding & special duties office. Immediately after the
publication from this office that all unpaid contract funds (UCF),
unpaid lotto fund (ULF), scammed victims funds (SVF) ETC should be
paid through this office. This office received many applications
including from your representative with British passport NO.
3028882234. Who also forwarded this account to us to transfer your
fund into. The following is the
account; ACC. NAME: MR JAMES JACKSON. BANK NAME: CITI BANK. ADDRESS:
ARIZONA, USA. ACCOUNT NUMBER: 6503809008. On your receipt of this message I
want you to urgently reconfirm to this office whether this person is
truly from you or not, as this office will not be liable if the total
sum US$10MILLION is paid into your representative (Mr. James Jackson)
account.

If not you are requested to forward the following information to this
office for verification and re-approval of your funds to your name as
beneficiary of the fund. 1) YOUR NAME IN FULL. 2) YOUR COMPLETE
ADDRESS. 3) YOUR TELEPHONE OR CONTACT INFORMATION. 4) AGE AND GENDER.
5) YOUR OCCUPATION. On personal note: According to information I
personally gathered from the banks/security and computer section, you
have been waiting for a long time to receive your money without
success. As I found out that you have almost met all the statutory
requirements in respect of
your fund settlement, but your problem is that of interest groups. A
lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are
merely doing papers works with you and that is why you receive
messages from different people almost every day. Also we found out
that some of the officials and fraudsters have been extorting money
from you with the pretext of helping you to receive your money. I can
assure you that this may last for years yet nothing happens, if you
did not do away with those officers you call
your partners and for security reasons. And I have decided to take it
upon myself to make sure that you received your funds immediately
through diplomatic means of payment.

We have concluded that you must compensate us with five hundred thousand
United States Dollars (US$500.000.00) as soon as you receive your money to
this effect, you will send to us a promissory note for five hundred
thousand united States Dollars (US$500.000.00) along with your address
for sending the boxes by diplomatic courier, Please maintain top most
secrecy as it may cause a lot of problem if found out that we are
using this way to help you. Do not tell anybody about this until you
have your money at your doorstep. I want to help you because something
in me is telling me that you are an honest person, when we concluded
this and you send our own part. We will help to ship the final part of
the money.

Introduction: Rt. Rev. Father Williams Randolf is a Catholic Church
Reverend Father, I am from England but on Missionary here in Spain,
before my appointment as Head of United Nations Fact Finding And
Special Duties office here in Spain. Be blessed as we wait for your
urgent reply to send the money through diplomatic courier.

Yours faithfully,

Rt. Rev. Father Williams Randolf
Chairman, Fact-Finding & Special Duties Office

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