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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: IMF AGENCIES <unng20142015@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:12:43 +0100
Subject: Re: STANDARD TRUST BANK / UNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATION PAYMENT

PAYMENTGood Day.This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from
the United Nations To Central Bank to pay 150 scam victims $1,000,000.00
(ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR) each.You are listed and approved for this
payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to
as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $1,000,000.00
compensations funds.On this faithful recommendations,we want you to know
that during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarmed
so much by the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various
individuals to the Nigerian scams artists operating in syndicates all over
the world today. In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in
conjunction with the Nigerian Government is now paying 150 victims of this
operators $1,000,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N.
recommendations.Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in
Nigeria, the payments are to be supervised by the United Nation's Officials
and the Central Bank Nigeria as the corresponding paying bank is STANDARD
TRUST BANK.According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries
has been paid, half of the victims are from the United States, we still
have more 36 left to be paid the compensations of $1,000,000.00 each.Your
particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one
of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to
communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as
the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep
it secret till they are all apprehended.Other victims who have not been
contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible
consideration on my email { stevemoll00001@bluesash.net
<stevemoll00001@bluesash.net> }I shall feed you with further modalities as
soon as I hear from you.Yours faithfully,Mr Barry William/Dr.Steve
Molle/Mr.Honesto.S Tajuna.Director Humanitarian Officer's*

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