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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: mrsfrancadonna@ubbi.com
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:25:05 +0000
Subject: RE: $1.2M AFRICAN UNION COMPENSATION.





DR MRS FRANCA DONNA
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
AFRICAN UNION-COMMITTEE FOREIGN PAYMENT
(RESOLUTION PANEL ON INHERITANCE FUND PAYMENT)
WEST AFRICAN REGION ZONAL OFFICE.
C/O ZONE DES AMBASSADE-COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC.

Our Ref: AF-UN /SNT/ST

ATTN: Beneficiary.

We, the above mentioned IN AGREEMENT with all member states of African
Union, Under the auspices of the THE CURRENT AFRICAN UNION HEAD, and
the Governor of BANQUE CENTRALE DES AFRIQUE, in a meeting held on 5th
July 2008 in respect to delayed foriegn transfer,foreign and local
contract payments and some inheritance funds that has not been paid
till date due to some stringent conditions attached to the
payment/transfer by various financial institutions.

Upon the conclusion of the meeting, this committee is saddled with
responsibility of paying compensation fee of $1.2M to various
individuals that has been confirmed for compensation by our
FACTFINDING COMMITTEE starting from today 07.07.2008 which discovered
that their files has not been treated by our predicessors and their
compensation was over due,however, we apologize for the delay of your
payment as one of the beneficiaries, you are hereby directed to stop
further communication with any office/ Person or group of person in
regards to your compensation fund.

You are strictly advised to contact the appointed office within 24
hours to the receipt of this communique with below stated informations
of your person for you to receive your payment accordingly.

FULL NAMES.......
HOUSE/OFFICE ADDRESS......
OCCUPATION.............
OFFICE/MOBILE TELEPHONE NUMBERS.....
FAX NUMBERS (optional)......
BANK NAME.........
BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER.......
BANK SWIFT CODE OR ABA-ROUTINE NUMBERS.....
PAYMENT REFERENCE NUMBER: 35460021
THE RELEASE CODE NUMBER: AU0001ECO523WA654.

NOTE: the paying officer cannot attend toyou if you did not provide
the full informations as stated most importantly your payment
reference and release code numbers, in view of the foregoings, you are
hereby now directed to contact the Head of Computer Credit/telex Dept
Of Eco Bank Benin PLc [OUR BANK] Dr.Wilfred Dossou immediately via his
official bank email address info.publicrelations@universo.com so that
he will advise you on the compensation payment.

NOTE : We have mounted our security network to monitor every in-coming
call, if we still find out that you are still dealing with all those
fraudsters that have been frustrating your fund transfer process you
will leave this committe no option than to cancel your payment
immediately.

Best Regards.

Dr MRS FRANCA DONNA
PUB RELATIONS AFRICAN UNION.

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