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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: "Economic and Social Council" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <albert.desmond2015@yandex.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:08:48 -0700
Subject: INFORMATION

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (UN ECOSOC / 2018)
UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
Head Office: Funds Office United Nations Protection Movement
1818 H St NW, Washington, DC 20433, United States,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Website http://www.un.org/

CONFIRMATION OF OVERDUE PAYMENT


Dear Email Owner/Fund Beneficiary,

This is to officially inform you that it has come to our notice since 15th of March 1999 when this Investigation program started from Africa and still moving on around the world till today, powered by the World Bank, United Nations / and International Monitoring Fund (IMF) conjoined with African Union Commission to establish all over the world. This Investigation program was carried on regard the crisis everywhere, Killing of innocent people, and suffering of people Worldwide, with all the illegal transaction, money laundering, and we discovered with Federal Reserve on Tuesday, 23 January 2018 faulted Financial Services anti-money-laundering program and confirmed the sum of US$ 9.3 billion, and after that we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System Database and confirmed that your name and E-Mail Address is among the (5) beneficiary’s who is having an illegal transaction with Impostors Claiming to be the bank officers, and we have investigated all this and fo

Thanks, for the invitation to the IMF to provide comments and suggestions in the context of the invitation of the payment and preparations for the UN Secretary General’s report on strengthening ECOSOC. We would like to preface our comments by pointing out that IMF is not a subsidiary body of ECOSOC nor is it a specialized agency of the United Nations and the relationship between the UN and the IMF is not one of principal and agent. The IMF, like the World Bank, has been constituted by its member countries as an independent international organization, governed by the Articles of Agreement. We collaborate with the UN, its organs and agencies based on these Articles and on 1947 cooperation agreement between the IMF and the UN. And we have actually been authorized by the newly appointed World Bank Group Secretary General, and the governing body of the (UN ECOSOC) with the International Monetary Fund, (IMF) /Finance Ministry, has investigated your fund which has been on transfer process for some period of time. D

Meanwhile, a woman came to our office few days ago with a Sworn Affidavit from the High Court, claiming to be your true representative, and that you have authorized her to receive the payment on your behalf. Her Name is: Mrs. Anne Engelbrecht, Address: No: 34 Stiemens Street Braamfontein, Gauteng South Africa. Please, do reconfirm to this office, as a matter of urgency if this woman is from you so that the Barclays Bank Plc London will not be held responsible for paying to the wrong beneficiary. However, Barclays Bank Plc will proceed to transfer the payment to the Said (Mrs. Anne Engelbrecht) if they do not hear from you within the Next Three (3) Working days from today. And an irrevocable payment guarantee has been issued by the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on your Payment. However, we are happy to inform you that based on our recommendation/Instructions to avoid double claim: your complete Inheritance / Compensation funds have been credited in your favor through one of our

Contact Person: Mr. Albert Desmond.
The General Consultant
Email: Mr.Albert@consultant.com
Direct Office lines: Tel: +27 638747194
Fax: +27 865173005
PAYOUT AMOUNT: £1,500,000.00 GBP (ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS)

You are therefore advice to contact:

Contact him now for the processing of your payment. And as soon as you establish a contact with him, your payment will be processed and transferred to your bank account immediately. So if you are willing to receive the funds you're advised to contact (Mr. Albert Desmond) with the following information as stated below: Please send your payment file Number to the bank: RBI-DEL/ID1033/UN.1,5UK

1. Your Full Name:
2. Address:
3. Your Age:
4. Sex:
5. Occupation:
6. Telephone Numbers:
7. Fax:
8. Country:

NOTE: You are advised to furnish (Mr. Albert Desmond) with your correct and valid details. Also be informed that the amount to be paid to you now is £1,500,000.00 GBP (ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS) We expect your urgent response to this email to enable us monitor this payment effectively thereby making contact with (Mr. Albert Desmond) as directed, to avoid double claim or any further delay.

Please Be Warned. The Economic and Social Council – United Nations does not instruct any other Bank or agent in this payment except (Mr. Albert Desmond) through whom we can only give you attention for now. And we advise you to stop all the communications you are having with any other Agent or bank officials in Europe, Asia and Africa regarding to your payment except (Mr. Albert Desmond) or you will lose the payment.



Yours in Services
His Excellency, Ambassador, Mr. Debbie Law
President.- Economic and Social Council

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