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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. SARBJEET KUMAR UNITED NATIONS" <sarbjeetkumar7777@outlook.com>
Reply-To: <compensationpyment@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 01:05:14 +0000
Subject: YOUR LONG AWAITED SCAM VICTIM COMPENSATION: $1.5 MILLION USD


RESERVE BANK ATM CARD DEPARTMENT
UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION FUND UNIT
2015 SCAM VICTIM COMPENSATION UNIT
===========================================
Good day to you:
My
name is Mr. Sarbjeet Kumar, I work with the United Nations Organization
In the department of UN COMPENSATION FUND UNIT, I'm in charge of
Investigating through unpaid project, Inheritance funds, Lottery and
other means of payment that was denied the real beneficiary through scam
and swindlers.
From
my record it shows that you have been denied payment and this was
supposed to be either your Inheritance fund, Lottery, IMF, Bank
transfer, Fund compensation etc, I forwarded your report to our Scam
Victim Investigation department to know why your transfer wasn't made to
you, they confirmed that the person who contacted you to make claims
played a fast one on you, there by deceiving you with all sort of fake
stories, documents and fees while he didn't have any genuine funds to
transfer you, We are very sorry and indeed concerned that you have been
taken advantage of by scammers in the past and maybe in this present
time.
With
full hopes, I have demanded that a compensation should be made to you
immediately without delay for all the funds you have lost via Western
Union Money Transfer, Money Gram and other transfer means, the sum of
$1.5 MILLION USD has been agreed to be issued to you as your scam victim
compensation through an Automated teller machine (ATM) and these funds
is coming from the Reserve Bank where all Compensation funds are lodged
for payments.
As
soon as you respond to this e-mail with full hopes and trust with the
below information's required to begin preparation of your ATM card, I
will also send you our Original United Nations Payment approval form
which certifies you as one of our Scam victim client for the year
2015-2016, Please you are to handle that document with perfect care
because it would not be sent the second time, You are also advised to
print the document as it would be used as evidence to our delivery man
on the day your ATM card would be delivered to your address.
The
Delivery man would be accompanied by one of our staffs who's an expert,
she will direct you on how to use the ATM card, following our
procedures you are to take them to any bank near you where the ATM card
would be confirmed by any bank manager, this is done to clear our scam
victims on any doubt they may have to use their ATM card for swift
withdrawal process.
With
our new Reserve Bank MasterCard ATM card produced specially for our
Scam Victims compensation clients, you can withdraw a maximum of
$5,000.00 daily from any ATM machine near you, Funds from the ATM card
can also be transferred to your account only when you seek for an
approval letter from the United Nations Head Office, Once approved, a
letter will be forwarded to your bank where we would send in codes for
transfer initiations.
Please fill below, the required details for our records and production of your ATM Card.

1. YOUR FULL NAME
2. YOUR RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD DELIVERY
3. TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR DELIVERY NOTICE
4. DATE OF BIRTH
5. OCCUPATION
6. MARITAL STATUS
7. SEX
8. YOUR NEXT OF KIN (One person)
Please
note: The only fees you are entitled to remit after the Production of
your Scam Victim ATM card is the sum of $175.00 for Delivery charges
with approval documents which you would sign-on on the day of your ATM
card delivery.
I
will wait to hear from you so your information's can be passed to the
Reserve Bank ATM card production Department where your ATM card will be
processed and parceled to my office for official delivery.
Yours In Service,Mr. Sarbjeet Kumar,
UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION TEAM
RESERVE BANK ATM CARD CREDITING DEPT

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