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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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Fraud email example:

From: peter onyemachi <peteronyemachi57@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:08:09 -0600
Subject: Attention Beneficiary

Foreign Operation Dept,
Offshore Account Officer
Reference code; (DSU/426/RF/083)
Tel: (+229) 69522801

Attention Beneficiary

Having acknowledged your response to my previous message, I am pleased
to write to you and to notifying you that we are mandated to release
your over delayed payment to you today. As already stated previously,
you will encounter no additional stress in this process. The board of
executives and government has authorized us to release every
foreigner’s outstanding payment in our database. Therefore, we have
concluded arrangement on how to pay you the sum of $5,500, 000 million
USD.

Meanwhile, you are required to obtain the UN Approval Clarification
Certificate, which will cost you $85.00 (Eighty Five United State
Dollars). This will authorize the release of your payment today. The
UN considered it necessary that every beneficiary must have a backup
document for their payment because it will free them from security
issues and being considered as fraudsters or sponsors of terrorism by
the government of their country. Consider this critically, if
$5,500,000.00 million united state dollars is found in your custody
without documents to show its origin or why you have such huge amount
of money in your possession, you might be sued, detained or termed a
criminal.

This is to notify all the outstanding beneficiaries about the latest
development concerning their unreleased payment in our custody, which
yours are inclusive. Before now, it cost a bigger amount of money to
obtain the UN Approval Clarification Certificate and because that is
the main reason, why some of the beneficiary’s payments are still
unclaimed until date, and unknown to those that handled the payment
previously that UN Approval Clarification Certificate is the only
thing the beneficiaries need to receive their payment successfully.
Hence, the UN are now offering a Special BONUS to help all the
beneficiaries that we still have their payment in our custody due to
one reason or another. Those involved are giving an opportunity to pay
only the sum of $85 united state dollars for UN Approval Clarification
Certificate to enable them receives their abandoned payment in our
custody.

The reason why this certificate is needed is in harmony with
international economic law under Clearance Act of 1999 Section 2 (B)
Sub-Section 26 as amended in 2004, which is to avoid suspicious of
money laundering. The Consequences of not complying with the
International Financial Regulation and Degree of 2003/2004 by securing
the UN Approval Clarification Certificate is confiscation of the
payment and also detain you the beneficiary indefinitely by your
government security agents until when the above required approval
certificate is being procured by you.

This is the only chance you have to claim your outstanding payment of
$5, 500, 000.00 million united state dollars and the money shall be
completely release to you upon your corporation with this mail. Others
beneficiaries like you have all followed the due process as stated
above and have received their payments successfully, which is the
reason why I took the decision to contact you in order you will
receive your abandoned payment.

Upon receipt of the $85, your name will be formally approved on the
database as the beneficiary of the payment while the UN approval
stands as a backing document that permits you to receive the total sum
of $5,500,000 million united state dollars.

Rendering assistance to poor and incapacitated beneficiaries or
beneficiaries directly soliciting for help has been a customary thing.
However, in recent times, it has proven to be the worst decision any
beneficiary can ever make. Those who happens to be in charge of
releasing beneficiaries payment previously, steal, divert and even
complicate issues for beneficiaries which most times results in cases
were beneficiaries loses their entire payment all in the name of
helping them out.

For this reason, the UN placed a mandatory decree preventing financial
assistance to be rendered to beneficiaries regardless their
conditions. Also making it necessary that the beneficiaries name must
appear on the database as the beneficiary who has come forth to
receive his or her payment. The payment slip or receipt, which
contains information in which you used in sending the $85, must also
be presented before the money you sent can be accepted. The executives
are interested in this process and have warned against such assistance
to beneficiary because people have attempted diverting beneficiary’s
payment through that means, so nobody is allowed to assist you to
avoid suspiciousness. Hence, as a Good practicing Christian, this is
the reason why I am revealing this to you in order you can be
informed. I wish to assist you then you can pay me back when you
received your payment but that is impossible.

Note: as set protocols must be heeded to, the suggestion of deducting
the above fee from your paying money is unacceptable because we lack
the ability to do so, just as the mutual Instruction given to me by
the UN and board executives to enable curtail incessant
misappropriation of funds allotted to beneficiaries and it usher no
room for the provisions of deduction. Moreover, in line with our mode
of operation, you are official required to send the $85 that will
permit the receipt of your payment today.

It is compulsory that you should send the $85 to the database control
center in Benin Republic for the UN Approval Clarification Certificate
to be formally issued in your name as the bona-fide beneficiary of the
payment sum of $5,500,000 million. Therefore, you need to send the $85
through Western Union Money Transfer, Money Gram or RIA using the
cashier receiver information below,

Receiver Name............. PAULINUS OKONKWO

Country........... BENIN REPUBLIC

City.............. COTONOU

Amount= $85 USD

Do endeavor to email or text me the (MTCN or Reference Number and
Sender’s Name) once you finish sending the $85 in order to enable us
finalize your payment process and ensure you receive your payment
successfully.

We look forward to confirming the transfer details from you soon once
you are done sending the $85.

Mr Peter
Director of Foreign operation

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