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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: "Kingsley Duke" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dukin914@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 19:05:01 +0100
Subject: IRREVOCABLE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT

INTERNATIONAL COMPENSATION FUNDS TRANSFER / AUDIT UNIT UNITED NATIONS (WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME) DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.

IRREVOCABLE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT

We the United Nation Surveillance, I wish to inform you regarding your Contract/ Inheritance and Winning Fund is being processed and will be
released to you through our Approved Payment Channels as soon as we receive response to this urgent notification.

To avoid all further bottlenecks, we have allocated you with a new International Payment Voucher Number: UK/BARCGB22-BGWB82UN-G, Approval
Number: 7402-2011, and you must quote these Identification Numbers during your response to this email for security reasons and proper
identification.

Please note that, your file is currently in our office, and from the records we have in our file, you have been cleared to receive this
fund as soon as we have a NEW ACCOUNT allocated out to you.Also reconfirm the following information to us for final ratification
exercise of your payment:

{Your Full Name
{Your Contact Address
{Your Direct telephone. Fax Number ( if any)
{Your AGE and what you do for a living

As soon as these Information are received, your payment will be duly processed.

Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.

Kingsley Duke.
Sub Regional Officer.
United Nation Surveillance.

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