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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: "INTERNATIONAL FUNDS TRANSFER" <info@compensationboard.com>
Reply-To: compensationboard_@live.co.uk
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 15:45:41 -0400
Subject: PAYMENT ADVICE







INTERNATIONAL FUNDS TRANSFER / AUDIT UNIT)
UNITED NATIONS (WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME)
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT
OUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX027
WEBSITE: www.imf.org
IRREVOCABLE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT
ATTN: sir/madam,
I am Mr. Robert B Zoellick, The World Bank President. This
message is
based on the meeting which the United Nation (UN), European
Union (EU) and
African Union (AU) held in London United Kingdom on 04th of
Jan 2011
regarding your expenses which you made for failed
Transactions like
Contract Fund, bank transfer, Lottery Fund transfer and
inheritance fund.
According to the International Monetary Funds Agency
(I.M.F), they
discovered that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed
by corrupt
officials of the Banks And Legal Attorneys who are Trying
to divert your
money into their private accounts, and we want to use this
opportunity to
inform you that some of this fraudsters has been curbed and
their account
has been also fr

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