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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: "Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ahleniusm47@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 10:56:47 -0800
Subject: FROM Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius

Internal Audit, Monitoring, Consulting and Investigations Division
 
From Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius.
UNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
From Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius.
 
Attention; sir /madam
 
 
This is to bring to your notice that  After i was Retired from this office i was appointed again and  I am
 
delegated from the United Nations To Central Bank to pay 150 scam victims $10,000,000.00 (TEN MILLION UNITED STATE
 
DOLLAR) each.
 
You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to me
 
as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your TEN,000,000.00 compensations funds. On this faithful
 
recommendations,we want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarmed so
 
much by the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various individuals to the scams artists operating in
 
syndicates all over the world today.
 
In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the Nigerian Government is now paying 150 victims
 
of this operators $10,000,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations. Due to the corrupt and
 
inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the payments are to be supervised by the United Nations' Officials and the
 
Central Bank of Nigeria as the corresponding paying treasury department United Bank for Africa According to the
 
number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid,half of the victims are from the United States, we
 
still have more 36 left to be paid the compensations of $10M each.
 
Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations,
 
you are hereby  warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S.
 
secret service is already on trace of the other criminals.
 
Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible
 
consideration.
 
You are thereby advised to contact the payment  officer of the treasury department United Bank of Africa through
 
the following information.
 
Name........................MR PETER UGO ,
 
Email:..........................u365648@gmail.com
 
WhatsApp number +234 8132291009 
 
You will receive your compensations payments through which the options You will be detailed with the modalities as
 
you contact the private officer of the treasury department United Bank of Africa
 
 
Sincerely yours,
Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius
 
ahleniusm47@gmail.com
 

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