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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: "Levent Bilman" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <foreign.payments@y7mail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 14:22:16 +0100
Subject: [GSN Suspected Spam] Your US$10,250,000.00 financial release.

Your US$10,250,000.00 financial release.
United Nation Compensation Commission
UNCC Secretariat
Villa la Pelouse
Palais des Nations
8-12 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland.

This is for your urgent attention;

This is to notify you that the United Nation Compensation Commission (UNCC) in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have nominated you to be among the beneficiaries certified to receive a financial grant as your inheritance for the sum of US$10,250,000.00 and the selection process was technically done by the executive board of directors through a computerized claim-by-claim system review exercise. To deal with these claims in an efficient, fair and impartial manner, the Commission employed a variety of internationally recognized techniques for claims processing, including computerized system methods and Official LDS Genealogy trace to get your data and others as rightful beneficiary of the inheritance/ grant.

The UNCC and IMF enacted this compensation/financial grant program to create financial empowerment for the selected beneficiaries of which some are un-paid-inheritance, victims of fraud/scam via cyber-crime. The UNCC and IMF the executive board of directors assessed the financial status of the beneficiaries before certifying them to receive this fund in order to create financial empowerment for them. You can visit this web link for more information: http://www.uncc.ch

You are hereby required to contact IMF European Department for the release of your grant as instruction for the processing and release of your grant has been transmitted to them by the governing council comprising the executive directors of UNCC/IMF, therefore you should direct your response to the Director of IMF European Department (Mr. Poul Mathias Thomsen) through this email: john.paymentdirector@imf-eo.org or foreign.payments@y7mail.com

Endeavour to send the following details for processing and transfer of your fund through appointed bank First International Bank of Israel, London .
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1. Full Names:
2. Address:..
3. Telephone/Mobile:.
4. Age and Gender:.
5. Nationality:
6. Occupation:
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Signed:
Levent Bilman
Director, Policy & Mediation Division, UNCC.

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