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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: Dr Jerry Isiak Tony<info@wil.org>
Reply-To: globalsettlementcommittee042@aol.com
Date: 01 Dec 2022 04:51:01 -0800
Subject: Good News and Very Important

Attn: Sir/Madam

                                                                 
                                      G.B.N./UNITED NATIONS
2011/2021 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the
United Nations & Central Bank of Ghana to pay all the 150, scam
victims, US$9,500,000.00 (NINE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES
DOLLARS) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as
one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to us
as soon as possible for the immediate release of your US$9,500,
000.00 compensation funds.On these faithful recommendations, we
want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at New-
York U.S.A. it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings
on the lost of funds by various individuals to the Nigerian/Ghana
 and some countries scam artists operating in syndicates all over
the world today.

In order to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with
Ghana The government is now paying 150 victims of these
operations US$9,500,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N.
recommendations.Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking
Systems in Africa, the Payments are to be supervised by the
'United Nations' Officials and Ghana Central Bank here in Ghana
which happened to be the biggest bank and the mother bank of all
the banks in Ghana for security purposes, as  the corresponding
paying bank is ZENITH BANK OF GHANA,

and through our offshore Payment center within Europe/Canada.
According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries
have been paid, half of the victims are from the United States,
we still have 36 more left to be paid the compensations of US$9,
500,000.00 each. Your particulars were mentioned by one of the
Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the
operations,We hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this
message to him for any reason whatsoever 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. If you have already been notified of
this payment program previously, do proceed with your claim as
required.As directed by the Global Settlement Committee, You can
receive your compensation payments via any of these payment
Options you may choose:


(A.) CERTIFIED INTERNATIONAL BANKER DRAFT, HSBC/LLOYD'S BANK WILL
ISSUE IT ONLY.
(B.) WIRE TRANSFERS.
(C.) TO VISIT OUR PAYMENT CENTER TO HAVE YOUR FUND BY CASH
PAYMENT ONLY IN EUROPE/CANADA/ASIA.


We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we hear from
you. You can reach this Committee through our  Private email :(
globalsettlementcommittee042@aol.com ) Office:Global Settlement
Committee , Contact person :Mr. Abel John Kwame  You are advised
to cooperate with him for the success of the transaction.

Yours faithfully,
Dr Jerry Isiak Tony.
Ghanaian Foreign Payment Scheme

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