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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: "UNITED NATIONS OFFICE UN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drnormanwood@qq.com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 06:21:19 -0700
Subject: RE: URGENT ATTENTION!!

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON FINANCIAL CRIME
UNITED KINGDOM BRANCH OFFICE.
RC: 103002 Our Ref: COPRBN-0X42/937/2013

Beneficiary,

This mail is to notify you that the United Nations in conjunction with the World Bank has deemed it imperative to look into several cases of fraud as reported from several security agencies. In order to carry out this assignment effectively a sub department, The United Nations office on financial crime has been created to conduct a comprehensive research as to ascertain the affected individuals; hence you have been enlisted as one of the victims alongside 50 other people.

On the strength of the above a resolution has been made that the listed individuals shall be compensated with the sum of 5000,000 UK pounds. However, final arrangement has been made for the immediate processing and release of this fund to the beneficiaries. And to facilitate swift conclusion a processing manager has been assigned to you, to do the final processing of this payment within seven working days.

Therefore you are advised to contact Dr. Norman Wood via his email drnormanwood@qq.com or call tel +346-534-217-66 for the immediate processing and release of this fund to you. Note you should provide him with the below stated data’s while communicating him, for verification;

Personal Information’s
-Full Name:
-Contact Address:
-Date of Birth:
-Place of Birth:
-Sex:
-Marital Status:
-Telephone Number:
-Email contact:

-Occupation:
Any Means of Identification:

Finally, your maximum cooperation is anticipated for the swift conclusion of this compensation payment.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Linda Maxwell.
Corporate Head,
United Nations Office on Financial Crime.

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