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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: <johnchang200@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:25:53 -0700
Subject: WE ARE SORRY FROM UNITED NATIONS RE-PAYMENT USD$14.3M

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: Sept-13-2010,

Attn: Sir/Madam

Beneficiary with African and European Countries *Sequel to the meeting held with all the African over the payments the Africans Leaders own beneficiaries,that it be paid to them via AU account with the supervision of the International monitoring fund.{IMF}unit in London UK.Your file is among those with us,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. No more contact with the previous persons you are dealing with.Your payment of USD$14.3M dollars 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 USD1.5bil
lion to compensation all SCAM VIC

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

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