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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. Ban Ki-Moon" <bakmoon552@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: "Mr. Ban Ki-Moon" <mrbanki_un@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 22:05:19 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 03354.





UN COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS UNIT.
REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 03354.
AMOUNT ; $2.550 Million USD.


How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family,You may not
understand why this mail came to you.

United Nation have been having a meeting for the past 3 months which ended
23 September 2014 with the World Bank President Mr.Jim Yong Kim and the
United States Secretary of State Mr. John Kerry.

This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the
world, and the people that have lost their properties in the earthquakes
and tsunami United Nations and World Bank have agreed to compensate them
with the sum of $2.550 Million (Two Million Five Hundred and Fifty
Thousand United States Dollars) each, this includes every foreign
contractors that may have not received their contract sum and people that
have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed
due to Government problems etc.

Your name and email was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Team of
Economic and Financial Crime Commission observers and this is why we are
contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.

You are advised to contact Mr. Nnamdi J. Okonkwo of FIDELITY BANK, as he
is our representative, contact him immediately for your
Check/International Bank Draft of USD$ 2.550 Million (Two Million Five
Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) This funds are in a Bank
Draft for security purpose so he will send it to you and you can clear it
in any bank of your choice.

Therefore, you should send him your full Name and telephone number with
your correct mailing address, where you want him to send the Draft to you.

Contact Mr. Nnamdi J. Okonkwo immediately for your Check:

Email:  fidelitybank.003@mail.bg
Telephone:   +2348086587519

Goodluck and kind regards,
Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary (UNITED NATIONS).
UN making the world a better place
http://www.un.org/sg/



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