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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: susan@uytinc.com
Date:
Subject:

REF/PAYMENT CODE: U.N/110464 $650,000 UNITED STATES DOLLARS.

Dear Beneficiary, 

WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

This is to officially bring to your notice that the United Nations Office have decided to compensate all the scam victims with the sum of $650,000 USD (Six hundred and fifty thousand United States dollars) You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims and to be paid this amount, get back to me as soon as possible for the immediate payment of your $650,000 compensation funds on these faithful recommendations, we want you to know that durring the last U.N meetings held in Africa, it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on the lost of funds by various individuals to the scam artists in syndicates all over the world. In other to compensate scam victims, the Africans body in conjunction with the United Nations is now paying a total 150 victims of this operator $650,000 each in accordance with the U.N recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient banking systems, your payments are to be supervised by the United Nations Officials and the Swiss Investment Bank as the corresponding paying office, according to the number of applicants at hand, 144 beneficiary's have already been paid, half of the victims are from the United States and India. We still have more 36 victims left to be paid their (Six hundred and fifty thousand United States Dollars) compensation funds. 

You have two options in receiving your approved payment valued $650,000 USD

(1) Through a loaded ATM MASTER CARD PAYMENT with Pin Code for easy withdrawals which will be mailed to you
(2) Through Swiss Investment Bank Online bank to bank wire transfer which the funds will be credited into your nominated bank account.

These are the two paying options approved by the United Nations, you will be detailed with the modalities as soon as you contact the assigned & approved Swiss Bank account crediting officer Mr David Bragg on his below contact.

Position: Swiss Investment Bank account crediting officer.

Finally you are free to decide on how you would like to your approved compensation of $650,000 USD funds to be paid to you as soon as possible.

Sincerely Yours
Mrs Margaret Johnson
Contact my private email address here (redacted@domain.name) should you have any questions.

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