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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: "UBA GROUPS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <karengreens-ubagroupsnewyork@usa.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:57:14 -0000
Subject: Attention: Discovered Fund Owner

UBA Bank USA
1 Rockefeller Plaza (8th Floor)
New York
NY10020

Attention: Discovered Fund Owner

I am Mrs. Karen Green the regional information officer with the UBA Bank USA, Sometime ago your contract FUND was deposited with this bank by the United Nations contract award department, but after some period they recalled the fund back to their treasury.

For the period of time this fund stayed with this bank, it generated an interest of US$6,000,000.00 only which we consider must be paid to you since you are one of the contractors/beneficiaries that have not received his/her payment. As a matter of fact we the management of this bank (UBA BANK NEW YORK), received an instruction from the Federal Reserved Bank New York in regard to your compensation fund in addition to this aggreement, we have resolved and decided to pay the interest of the fund to you.

REQUIRED DATA FOR PAYMENT: 1. Full Names, 2. Telephone Number, 3. Address, 8. ID Card #

Please do send the above REQUIRED DATA FOR PAYMENT directly to our payment director through the below email address:
karengreens-ubagroupsnewyork@usa.com

This bank therefore apologizes for any form of delay and inconveniences, we are poised to serve you better, and on a last note, we want you to keep this correspondence confidential because all the officials that are involved in your principal amount don’t know about the existence of this fund.

Accept our congratulations in advance.

Regards,

Mrs. Karen Green,
Information Desk
UBA New York

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