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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: UNITED NATION <admin@myanmarkhayaytrading.com>
Reply-To: doncallahan1111@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:00:09 -0500
Subject: UN Notification

UN Compensation Department
405 East 42nd Street, New York
United States of America.
 
Attn: Beneficiary.
 
This is to inform you that in the course of my investigation as director of payment verification / implementation committee, I came across your name as unpaid fund beneficiary in the record of the United Nation and other banks that are suppose to get your funds released to you. My committee was set up by the United State payment
reconciliation committee to verify and scrutinize all outstanding debts owed to our citizens (US CITIZENS) and other foreign beneficiaries in accordance to the information we received from the United States government and other countries over huge unpaid debts owed to them which you are listed as one of them.
 
Having gone through your file and my further questioning to the officials of the United Nation and other banks involved as to why your payment is still pending and was shocked by the revelations about the rot and corruption from their few officials in the system. The United Nation and bank officials told me that the reason why you haven't received your payment is due to your inability to pay for the required charges for transfer of funds to your account. When I asked them why didn't  deduct the said charges from your principal sum, I was given the flimsy excuse that you never authorized them to do so. When I put the question across to them if they ever advised you that those charges could be deducted from your principal fund, the answer I got was no. Now, if you do not tell the beneficiary that such charges could be deducted from his or her principal fund, how will he or she know that such options are available for such beneficiaries?
 
From my investigation, I discovered that these United Nation and bank officials deliberately refused to let the charges be deducted from your principal fund because they want your funds to remain trapped in the bank, while they continue to extort money from you under some flimsy excuse. You do not need to pay any money to any official, all you are required to do is swear to an affidavit at the New York Court of Appeal, authorizing the bank to deduct all charges from your principal funds and transfer the balance of funds after deduction to your bank account.
 
I can direct you to an attorney who will help you get the affidavits from the New York Court of Appeal only if you don’t have any attorney who will do it for you so that you will get your payment as soon as possible but if you have any please let your attorney do it for you and send your phone number when replying this email.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Don Callahan, LLP
Director United States Reconciliation Committee

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