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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: UNITEDNATION UNITEDNATION <unitednationpaymen2017ng@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:33:46 +0100
Subject: SCAM VICTIM COMPENSATION PAYMENT.

From Mr Mike Ben
Email: unitednationpaymen2017ng@gmail.com

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United
Nations To Central Bank to pay 150 scam victims $1,000,000.00 (ONE
MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR) each.

You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed
victims to be paid this amount, get back to as soon as possible for
the immediate payments of your $1,000,000.00 compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations,we want you to know that during the
last U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarmed so much by
the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various individuals
to the Nigerian scams artists operating in syndicates all over the
world today. In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in
conjunction with the Nigerian Government is now paying 150 victims of
this operators $1,000,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N.
recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the
payments are to be supervised by the United Nations' Officials and the
Central Bank Nigeria as the corresponding paying bank is STANDARD
TRUST BANK.

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 $1,000,000.00 each.

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. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended.

Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application
as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.

Contact me on this Email if you have been Scam Before Email:
unitednationpaymen2017ng@gmail.com

Yours faithfully,
Mr Mike Ben.

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