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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: Williams Robenson <kimw22558@gmail.com>
Reply-To: robensonw60@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:28:34 -0700
Subject:


UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)
Sweden address Birger Jarlsgatan 57 C, 113 56 Stockholm, Sweden

USA Address: 405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017, USA
Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/098/2022
UN Payment Code: 06898

Attention: UN Beneficiary, We bring greetings to you in the name of
the lord. This message is
sent to you as a notification that you have been chosen to benefit
from the charity project aimed at touching lives and helping those
that we can across the world.
Be informed that United Nations In conjunction with United States
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GRANTS (F-G-G) wishes to
entrust the sum of 5 Million Dollar ($5,000,000.00 USD) for each
individual for the people of. United States, South America, Europe,
Asia, and some other countries in Africa for the construction of
churches, school children, hospital medicines. ** They're also helping
the old, young, deaf, blind working, retired and disabled with fund,
We discovered that most Cities are facing a lot of poverty,
joblessness, and creativity in most of their locality and upgrade
their society/community by using this fund to assist the orphanage
home, blind, working, retired, and disabled, creation of local jobs
opportunities.
This program tagged “Grass-Roots Program” is part of efforts to
improve standard of living through direct participation in community
development across several communities in the United States, Europe
and Asia by empowering selected individuals to implement and provide
basic amenities to needed City's.
You have been listed as one of the lucky recipients to receive Five
Million Dollars, This donation is made out to you so to enable you
strengthen your personal issues and mostly to generously help us
extend hands of giving to the less privileged, orphans and charity
organizations within your locality
This new program was established by the UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME (UNDP) in conjunction with United States FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
GRANTS to help people in the society to meet up their needs.
i will give you the details of the bank once i hear from you, send us
your information such as.

1) Scan Copy of Your National Identity Card or your International Passport:
2) Full Names:
3) Residential Address:
4) Country:
5) Nationality:
6) Mobile Number:
7) Occupation:

Yours faithfully
Mr. William Robenson

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