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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: =?UTF-8?Q?Mr=2E_Volker_T=C3=BCrk?= <info.valued@gmail.com>
Reply-To: info.contact1@indamail.hu
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 01:11:48 -0800
Subject: From UN High Commissioner for Human Rights


From UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Hello:

My name is Mr. Volker Türk, I am the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights. I was mandated to come to the United Kingdom to investigate
frauds that are being committed globally at intervals. I am presently
working with the British inspector general of police, some FBI and CIA
agents to ensure that the perpetrators of this Evil activities are urgently
apprehended.

"I am very honored to be invited to eradicate fraud completely all over the
World which I have vowed to do without any fear or favor," but it baffles
me to discover that your impending funds, which was intercepted,has not
been released to you till this moment after being cleared by the UN,
British Government,Federal Ministry of Justice and the Finance Ministry. It
is also clearly indicated that you have made several attempts and spent
much money to transfer your funds to your account but to no avail.

With the help of the British Police, special FBI and CIA agents, We have
managed to apprehend some scam syndicates who made some confessional
statements and indicted Ex-governor of the Bank of England (Mark Joseph
Carney and his successor Andrew Bailey. They have confessed how they have
impersonated the names of some UN Executive members like António Guterres,
MR BAN KI-MOON, Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius and Ms.Carman L. Lapointe Mrs
Paulette Beal to defraud their victims.

Please, we have noticed that this scammers are very ruthless and have
defrauded so many foreigners we have also discovered the irregularities in
foreign payment files intentionally masterminded by these scammers and
urgently called the attention of the World Bank President and Antonio
Guterres and they both came to a resolution that the British Government
must pay a total amount of £10.5Million to each of the people whose names
were found in the list till this irregularity has been corrected all over
the world.

This approved amount must be made available to all beneficiaries within the
next 14 banking days or an Economic Sanction will be placed on Britain by
the UN and other international Organizations.

NOTE: On no account must you be requested to pay any fee by any Bank or
individual all over the world. The only fee you must pay to receive your
fund which covers every other fee is a UN POLICE FUND CLEARANCE REPORT FEE
OF £500. This must be paid directly to my office here for the procurement
and endorsement of all your fund approval/release documents by the UN.

WARNING!!!!!!. The UN has never for once sent any Diplomat to Britain for
any payment. IF you have any dealings with anyone claiming to be any of
these persons, please STOP immediately or we shall cancel this payment of
£10.5Million that has already been approved to you.Note that,the UN POLICE
FUND CLEARANCE REPORT FEE is must and very important, so take note of that.

NB: Every communication should be made through this email address: (
mrvolker.turk@gmail.com) on how to send the £500 only.

NOTE: We have asked for the above UN POLICE FUND CLEARANCE REPORT FEE to
make available the most complete and up-to-date records
possible.immediately Contact me via Email for instructions on how to send
the £500. Any other contact or payment you make apart from the UN POLICE
FUND CLEARANCE REPORT FEE is at your own risk. WE will like your response
to this call to avoid any further delay.

Do not be afraid of the fee, when replying to this mail, include your full
name, phone number,position and address so that we can register it here.

Thanks for your anticipated compliance to this message.

Regards,
Mr. Volker Türk
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
www.ohchr.org

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