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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: William Robinson <johnjamesb7v@gmail.com>
Reply-To: williamrobenson8@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 06:37:39 +0100
Subject: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

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 ($5000000 USD) for each individual for
the people 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 ts 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 Robinson

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