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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: Rv Williams Lafela <angelinayur20@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rvwilliamslafela@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:39:46 -0700
Subject: Attn:Beneficiary, Approved Sum Of ($850,000) Thousand US.Dollars

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UNITED NATIONS DEBT RECOVERY TEAM AFRICA.

Office 176 V.Island Lagos Nigeria

Attn:Beneficiary,

Approved Sum Of ($850,000) Thousand US.Dollars

This is to inform you that the United Nations High Commission/Debt

Monitoring Team has taken over your payment matters following report we

received from UN Economic/Intelligent Monitory Group,UNHC is hereby to

protect your interest and to see that you receive your long overdue payment

without further hitch.

Secondly,note all documentation/clearance will be taken care of from UNHCR

Special intervention Fund,Therefore all your Payment Documents/Clearance

will be done free of charge by UN,therefore expect to receiving your Fund

Clearance Documents within few days from now by scan while original

documents/card will be delivered by courier thereafter
Once all the required documents are issued, UNHC TEAM PROTOCOL OFFICER will

forward them to Wema Bank Plc, the official UN APPROVED SETTLEMENT BANK a

subsidiary of First Bank Plc for prompt settlement of your entitlement

through online transfer.

Therefore kindly furnish us with your Details as stated below:

1) Country Of Origin/Residential Address.

2) Your Present Occupation.

3) Marital Status.

4) Your Telephone Number.

Finally, you should also understand clearly that they have never been a

time you reported your payment difficulties to UNHC TEAM,we discovered it

and if we are not capable of assisting you or if your claims are not

legitimate,in the first place, we would not contact you,therefore we seek

for your cooperation/understanding.

contact: rvwilliamslafela@gmail.com

I await your response.

Regards,

Rv. Williams Lafela,
UN Team Africa Mission Leader.

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