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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: <ingabritahlenius72@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 06:43:58 -0500
Subject: my subject

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 $10millon 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:..........................ubank9327@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

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