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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: "Catherine M. Russell" (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 11:55:03 +0100
Subject: From Catherine M. Russell

Hello,

This letter will definitely be surprise to you but be rest assured that it's not SCAM of any kind

rather we urge you to STOP sending MONEY to Impostor in other to receive your Payment. In case if

anybody ask you to do so, please kindly report the person to the appropriate authority.

Meanwhile, my name is Catherine M. Russell , United Nation Office, I wish to

notify you that we have actually been authorized by the World Bank, and the governing body of the

monetary unit of IMF to effect your overdue compensation payment though Cheque/Bank Draft without

delay.

As instructed by the aforementioned authorities, we are to pay 100 Nigerian Scam victims

$1,000.000.00 ( One Million United States Dollars) each. You are listed and approved in the payment

schedule for this payment as one of the beneficiaries to be paid this amount as compensation. As a

result of this laudable recommendations, it is imperative to bring to your notice that during the

official meetings held at Abuja, it was alarmed so much by all in the meetings on the lose of funds

by various foreigners to the scams artists syndicates operating in all over the world today. In

other to redeem the good image our relationship with other Countries, the President has agreed with

World Bank and International Financial Bodies to ordered the payment of $1,000.000 .00 each to the

affected victims in pursuance with the U.N. recommendations.

This was resolved in a meeting held between World Bank, United Nations, Economic Community of West

African States (ECOWAS) Authorities and Officials of Nigerian Government in Lagos last week, as a condition from the International Monetary Fund to support Asia Countries, Canada,European Union (EU) and United States of America in receiving total debt cancellation or forgiveness from the International Financial Bodies.

However, as per the instruction given by the authorities, recipients are to visit Foreign debt

settlement unit office Lagos- Nigeria and sign for the documents and pick up your Cheque/Bank Draft

with all the documents that covered it.

Alternatively, if for any reason, you cannot travel down to our office here in Lagos, then you are

advise to pay delivery fees and our delivery agent can come along with the documents for you to sign

and hand over your Cheque/Bank Draft to you safely. Please If this option is suitable for you then

get back to me as soon as possible with the following information: Your Full Name, Your Contact

Address, Nationality, telephone or Mobile Number, A copy of any of your Id card for Identification

and immediate processing. Information which you will use to transfer the delvery fee so that our

agent will move immediately to meet with you and hand over your package Cheque/Bank Draft to you

will be made available to you as soon as we confirm the above details.

*Mind you this is the ONLY payment you have to make to receive your Cheque/Bank Draft, please kindly

report immediately if anyone should ask you to pay more than the delivery fee or extra fees...And

this fee is refundable, should incase your Cheque/Bank Draft is not delivered within 2 business

days, then kindly report to this office asap, so that your fund would be refunded.

Please inform us of your decision, ASAP .

To avoid impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (Cheque/Bank Draft-110) so

you have to indicate this code when contacting the Cheque/Bank Draft Center by using it as your

subject.

Please note that a copy of this letter has been sent to above authorities as proof that you have

been notified for immediate delivery of your Cheque/Bank Draft and if you fail to respond on time

then this institution will not be held responsible for your Cheque/Bank Draft anymore because your

payment file would be canceled and returned back to World Bank as unclaimed Cheque/Bank Draft.

Best Regards,

Catherine M. Russell
united Nation Office.
Office

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