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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: "Mr John Chang" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johnchang222@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 05:01:47 -0700
Subject: WE ARE SORRY FROM UNITED NATIONS

THE UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION
In Conjunction with the International
Monetary Fund OCHRE,
Senior Human Rights Officer,
On international payment department.
Dalais Wilson, CH 1211 Geneva 10,
Switzerland .
Date: May-12-2010,



Attn: Sir/Madam



Beneficiary with African and European Countries *Sequel to the meeting we have with all the African country leaders regards to all the payment been owed by the Africans should be paid to them via AU account with the supervision of the International monitoring fund unit in London UK,which you are one of them, but the IMF London unit has the right to appoint any bank no matter the country or place to make the payment on their behalf bear this in mind. All formal payment officers are not to handling any payment again. Your payment was among the petitions and complains we have received from all parts of the world against African countries the way they are delaying their beneficiary’s fund. Some petitions we received made it known to us that some beneficiaries have loose all they have achieve in the life time due to the way Africans are asking them to pay one charge or the other in regards of their payment. The UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION out the total sum of USD780.5Million to compensation all SCAM VICTIMS to have


Best Regards,
Mr. John Chang,
For: Dr Frej Fenniche,
Senior Human Rights Officer,
United Nations Switzerland .

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