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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <jointresolution@j-mail.info>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:36:37 +0000
Subject: UNITED NATIONS 2007/2008 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS OF
US$2.5,000,000.00



THE SENATE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT (RESOLUTION PANEL ON PAYMENT) NATIONAL ASSAMBLE COMPLEX: 3 ARMS ZONE WUSE GARKI ABUJA
ANNEX LAGOS-NIGERIA. Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB ......... Your Ref:....... ATTENTION: HON.CONTRACTOR,

SCAMMED VICTIM/$2.5,000,000.00 BENEFICIARIES. REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 06654 $2.5, 000,000.00. ATTENTION: SIR/MADAM, UNITED NATIONS 2007/2008 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS. This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations To Central Bank to pay 150 scam victims $2.5,000,000.00 (TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOURSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $2.5, 000,000.00 compensations funds. On this faithful recommendations, want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held in Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various individuals to the Nigerian 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 $2.5, 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 Nigeria as the corresponding paying bank is BANK PHP PLC. According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United States , and we still have more 36 left to be paid the compensations of $2.5, 000,000.00 each. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested by Nigeria economice and finance crime commission (EFCC) as one of the victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to another person for any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended. Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration. You can receive your compensations payments via any of this options you Choose, DRAFT/CHEQUE PAYMENTS/ or WIRE TRANSFERS. I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you. Senator David MarkDebt Reconciliation Committee [Cbn]+234-8064810005Sorry for what you might have gone through in the hands of our past dubious governmental officials in time past. YOUR URGENT RESPONSE WILL BE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED. YOURS FAITHFULLY, SENATOR DAVID MARK ALHAJI BABAGANA KINGIBESenate President Secretary of the federation
Federal Republic of Nigeria Federal Republic of Nigeria

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