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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 TEKEDA ALEMU <infosss1985@gmail.com>
Reply-To: MR TEKEDA ALEMU <informations1988@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 04:42:54 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Your Payment Is Ready


From: Ambassador Tekeda Alemu
President of the United Nations Security Council
Head of review, world debt reconciliation 
And investigator Washington DC united state

Attention Please

I wish to notify you as a beneficiary of $8.500,000.00 ( Eight Millions, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in compensation. We have been authorized by the governing body of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment recommended and approved in your favor by World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).

During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials of the previously appointed paying bank who were making efforts to divert your funds into their private bank accounts. To prevent this, your funds were organized in the form of your Personal Identification Number (PIN) ATM card and this will enable only you to have direct control over your funds with the ATM CARD.

We will monitor this payment ourselves to avoid the hopeless situation created by the officials of the bank. An irrevocable payment guarantee has been issued by the Federal Reserve System Washington, DC and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for your payment. The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) was created in 1991 as a subsidiary organ of the United Nations Security Council under Security Council resolution to process claims and pay compensation for losses and damages.,

However, my office has received all the overdue outstanding payments owed to the following firms, contractors payment, inheritance payment, next of kin, super hurricane Sandy and lottery beneficiaries that originated from Africa, Europe, Americas, Asia including the Middle East. Your payment has been approved to be credited in your favor through ATM VISA card which will be sent to you by courier service or through Electronic Funds' Transfer (Bank Wire Transfer). Your email address was randomly selected from europe and USA databases which qualify you to put a claim for payment of $8.500,000.00 USD. You are therefore advised to quickly get back to me with your full house address and direct telephone number

Contact me immediately you receive this notice for the delivery of your VISA ATM card or bank wire transfer. As soon as I hear from you with the informations, an ATM card will be issued and delivered to you for the withdraw of your funds in any bank ATM machine in your country or any other part of the world. So if you like to receive your funds through this means you are advised to reply back with the following information as stated below:

1. Your Full Names..
2. Date of Birth..
3. Nationality...
4. Physical Address:
5. Telephone Numbers:
6. Private E-Mail Address:
7. Indicate Preferred Choice of Payment (VISA ATM Card or Bank Wire Transfer):

NOTE: You are advised to furnish me with your correct and valid details. Also be informed that the amount to be paid to you is $8.500,000.00 USD. We expect your urgent response to this email to enable us monitor this payment effectively.

Congratulations with best compliments,

From: Ambassador Tekeda Alemu
President of the United Nations Security Council
Head of review, world debt reconciliation 
And investigator Washington DC united state.

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