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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 State Treasury" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hebrewwatt9@citromail.hu>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:59:08 -0700
Subject: Congratulations Dear Beneficiary!

UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION UNIT,
IN AFFILIATION WITH WORLD BANK.
Permanent Mission of ENGLAND to the United Nations
351 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022
Our Ref: UN/TH/066147/2020
This letter is from Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the United Nation Treasury Department. We have been authorized by the World Bank in conjunction with the United Nations to release your Compensation funds amount of $10,500,000.00usd (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) to you base on the United Nations report. Kindly confirm the activeness of your e-mail address for further information.
 
 
You can confirm this compensation exercise through this links as followed:
 
www.un.org/press/en/2005/ik486.doc.htm
 
You are therefore advised to fill the information bellow and forward to the paying bank in charge for immediate release to you with the contact details bellow.
 
CONTACT PERSON: MR. HEBREW WATT
CONTACT EMAIL: hebrewwatt9@citromail.hu
Full Name:
Complete Address:
Occupation:
Cell Number:
Home Number:
Age:
Sex:
Copy of ID:
 
You Registration Number is EG2272-B this payment has been made available to you by the United Nations from the unpaid fund in the
United State treasury Funds which was released by the World Bank for Economic uplift.
Yours in Service,
Martins Jonathan.
The Management.
Financial Conduct Authority

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