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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <UN_EU10099@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:21:46 -0700
Subject: REGARDING YOUR DELAYED PAYMENT

Attn: Beneficiary,
 
This notification is coming to you and we applaud you to do your best and get back to us so that we can help you finalize your compensation transaction which has been approved by the United Nation. You are required to read this information carefully and respond accordingly.
 
It may interest you to know that an investigation had been ongoing, to why you receive several emails from so many people and why they always keep requesting that you send them fees before they can approve your payment. Our secret service department unveiled that some top Politicians and some senior Staff in Government had been the brain behind your pit falls, they have withheld approval to your payment asking for fee and fees because they want you to get frustrated and abandon your entitlement so, they can in return lay claim for it and if any international authority or security service try to question them they will say you abandoned the payment and did not comply with the rightful laws.
 
Our secret service also discovered that, those top, rich and powerful in the society are the one who have hire those criminals to keep sending different kind of email to you in other to extort money from you and make you even more poorer. Those involved are rightly been investigated and we are making sure that justice is served.
 
With all that happened we wish to inform you that the United Nation in connection with the EU (European Union) has agreed to pay you a compensation sum of $6.345.000.00 (six million three hundred and forty five thousand United States Dollar) the mentioned amount is combined together with all your pending payment which those Top Official and some Politicians have withheld from you all this while. We are truly sorry that you had gone through all you have experienced and want to speed up the process of paying all beneficiary whom have suffered so much in the past.
 
Be aware that, to make sure that this payment is sent to you. We have made sure that all that concerns the said sum is done through (ATM). this means you will be provided an ATM CARD where your payment sum have been deposited and you will be provided with the information you need to make transfers to your personal account in your region/country or bank of your choice. This is because we want to suppress any unlawful act by our officials. You had already waited enough so do not waste any more time contact us immediately and provide us with:
 
FULL NAMES:
 
ADDRESS:
 
AGE:
 
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:
 
PHONE:
 
These information will be used to authenticate your ATM account so therefore, you must make sure you provide accurate information as we already have your information. If you send wrong information we will consider it illegal and you will be disqualified to receiving your compensation sum. Again if we do not hear from you as soon as possible we will also consider that you have truly abandoned your payment sum.
 
This notification did not come to you by accident. So you are advised to act quickly Thank you.
 
Dr. Belly Frontier (PRD)
Public Relation Department

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