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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. Gonzalo Vargas Llosa" <test@ctinets.com>
Reply-To: g.llosa@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:28:04 -0700
Subject: U.N ONLINE ACCOUNT NOTICE!

Mr. Gonzalo Vargas Llosa
Representative
United Nations Headquarters (U.N Assisted Program Compensation Unit)
760 United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y 10017, United States
E-mail: gllosa@1thecity.biz
Website: www.uncc.ch

Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/KB027

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

Following the just concluded UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY meeting, We receive a confirmation that you were among the scam victims, because of this Secretary-General MR. ANTONIO GUTERRES of United Nations in conjunction with other appropriate International bodies, has agreed to reward and compensate you and also to pay 6 other victims from your country who has been Victims of Internet scam, The United Nations has decided to pay you $1,200,000.00 USD (One Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount. Also this compensation award extended to victims of Hurricane, earthquake, War displaced and Aged. Anyone who is a victim of the above mentioned is liable to benefit from this compensation exercise.

We found your e-mail address in our list and that is why we are contacting you. This have been agreed upon and have been signed Therefore, we are happy to inform you that an arrangement has perfectly been concluded to effect your payment as soon as possible in our bid to be transparent and making the world a better place.

However, it is our pleasure to inform you that your compensation payment will be paid to you via our Offshore Correspondence Payment Bank in the United States of America; our Offshore Payment Bank in USA will setup an Online Account on your behalf and provide you with the account USERNAME and PASSWORD to enable you login to your account and make transfer yourself to any Bank of your choice.

For your information we have one mode of payment which is ONLINE BANKING via our Offshore Correspondence Payment Bank in the United States of America. So you are hereby advice to send your information to the U.N Humanitarian Office to enable them send you the contact information of the payment Bank here in the USA, send him your full Name, your telephone number, your address, your age and occupation.

Contact our payment Representative U.N Ambassador & Broker for all Compensation, Contract/Inheritance Sum Settlement, MR. IGOR KHUDOSHIN immediately for your payment.

Contact: Mr. Igor Khudoshin / U.N Ambassador & Broker
913 S. University Avenue. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190. USA
Contact Email: brokerigor@aol.com
Telephone: +1 (517) 234-2911

Thanks and God bless you and your family.

Hoping to hear from you as soon as you receive your compensation fund.

Making the world a better place

Regards,

Mr. Gonzalo Vargas Llosa
Representative (United Nations Headquarters)
Signed: Mr. Antonio Guterres
(UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL).

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