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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear beneficiary," (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
- "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +23414701212 (Nigeria, landline)

Fraud email example:

From: "ADB" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wba-adb@s0ny.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:34:31 +0100
Subject: Our Ref:

UN Regional Office, Abuja ? Nigeria.

Phone: 234 1 470 1212

Email: wba-adb@s0ny.net

Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX028 United Nations.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND US$2.5M ONLY

Dear Beneficiary,

It is a pleasure to write you that we have reconciled with our logistic department on the reimbursement of your long overdue payment compensation and accrued interest. Our reconciliation teams with the direct instructions of the United Nations after this sum of US$2.5M was allocated for your payment.

After approval of this sum, our logistic department gave us a list of customers to be paid the sum US$2.5m (Two million, Five hundred thousand United States) and your name appears on this list as a due beneficiary for payment. We have arranged your payment through our several offshore payment banks to ensure a transparent and clean process of payment.

Without any further delay, you are hereby required to reconfirm your details such as, 1, Your Full names, 2, You Full address, 3 Your Direct Phone Number. This will be reconfirmed with the available list of beneficiary due for payment and allocation of payment Bank. You are further advised to respond as fast as possible to enable us pass our recommendations for the release of this sum to you as due.

Your urgent response is awaited.

Regards

Mrs. Linda Oscar

UN Regional Office,

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