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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.Carlos William" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <internationalmonetaryfundsbk@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 03:59:12 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION BENEFICIARY

UNITED NATION COMPENSATION UNIT, IN AFFILIATION WITH WORLD BANK AUDITORS.
U.S.A GOVERNMENT/UNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
 
Attention:
 
This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations To Reserve bank of America to pay 150 scam victims $1,500,000.00 (ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED  THOUSAND UNITED STATE  each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to me as soon as  Possible for the immediate payments of your $1,500,000.00 compensations funds.On this faithful recommendations, we want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at white house  it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on  the lose of funds by various individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today. In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in  Conjunction with the American Government is now paying 150 victims of this operators $1,500,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations.
 
Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in the world, the payments are to be supervised by the United Nations' Officials and the Reserve Bank America as  the corresponding paying bank (BOA) According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United States, we  Still have more 36 left to be paid the compensations of $1.5 Million united dollars Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or  duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals.
 
Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.
 
Information request for your transfer.
 
* 1) YOUR FULL NAME:
* 2) ADDRESS, CITY, STATE AND COUNTRY.
* 3) PHONE, FAX AND MOBILE
* 4) COMPANY NAME (IF ANY) POSITION AND ADDRESS         
* 5) BANK DETAILS
* 6) PROFESSION, AGE AND MARITAL STATUS
* 7) COPY OF YOUR INT”L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE
 
You are thereby advised to contact the private client office of the Bank of America through the following information.
 
Thanks,
 
Mr.Carlos William
Phone Number:+1 425 523 1640   
Email: internationalmonetaryfundsbk@gmail.com

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