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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: Leather Bootboy <nzboot4u@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:36:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM Mr. Paul Villa of UNITED NATIONS DEBT SETTLEMENT


FROM Mr. Paul Villa of UNITED NATIONS DEBT SETTLEMENT
UNITED NATIONS DEBT SETTLEMENT
AFRCAN REGIONAL,ABUJA NIGERIA
OUR REF: UN/ARXX/02
YOUR REF: .........
CELL PHONE: +2348130998783

Attention: Beneficiary,

I am delighted to inform you that the Inheritance panel, which just concluded it’s seating in Abuja just released your name amongst the Beneficiaries to benefit first quarter Payment. This Panel was primarily delegated to investigate manipulated inheritance claims,
and over-invoiced payment as the effect has eaten deep into the economy of our dear country, Your approved inheritance fund is
USD1.5m.

The Federal government has today mandatory decided to monitor all release fund to make sure all outstanding fund is paid through TM Card and to make sure all ATM Card shipped to all Concerned respective beneficiaries , this is as a result of the final year auditing 2011,we
are carrying out for the 2012 fiscal year. Please you are advised to be vigilant in the recipient of your ATM card which is fully inter-switch and sealed and packaged under secured manner. All information has been passed to respective beneficiaries who are still having their ATM approved card outstanding here in Nigeria including you . Please soon as you received this ATM card do let us know for immediate attention so that we can issue you
the activation pin-code for the immediate withdrawal of your Fund via your ATM card any ATM machine nearest to you in your country.

However, we wish to bring to your notice that your inheritance profile is still reflecting in our central computer as unpaid Beneficiary while auditing was going on last year 2011. Your file was forwarded to my office by the auditors as unclaimed fund, we wish to use this
medium to inform you that for a moment Federal Government of Nigeria have stopped further payment through bank to bank transfer due to numerous petitions and complain to United Nations against Nigeria on wrong payment and diversion of inheritance funds to different account.

Following to this development, you are advice to reconfirm below details for delivery of your ATM CARD to your account.

1. FULL NAME
2. ADDRESS
3. PRIVATE MOBILE PHONE NUMBER
4. ANY OF YOUR I.D.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Paul Villa
Atm Card Dept, Manager
Cell Phone Number: +2348130998783
paulv@skymail.mn,

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