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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: "Dr. James Brand" <western.infowesternunionuk.uni@gmail.com>
Reply-To: drjamesbra11@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 00:04:04 +0300
Subject: Urgent Payment Notification

To The Attention Of.

Sir,

I wish to bring to your notice that PARIS Club in alliance with World Bank
held series of meetings with African Heads of States at Addis Abbaba on the
26 of April 2019 in order to offset the debts which African countries owed
to Europeans, Americans, Asians and Australia citizens and the accord
reached was that single paper should be issued to each certified contractor
or beneficiary of any fund whose fund remains unpaid to enhance immediate
and unconditional remittance of such funds to the beneficiary hence this
contact to your-good-self as it was ascertained that your fund is among the
unpaid funds basically for no concrete reasons which the African countries
were blamed for inappropriate handling of the payment procedures which
contradicted UN Charter 1141 Section 5b which empowers any contractor or
beneficiary the right to claim his/her fund without prejudice.

Consequently, Your fund which is still on hold was among those to be paid
out of the $2.5B loan which the PARIS Club gave to African Countries
purposely to offset these debts and improve African economies. It might
interest you to know also that the paper which authorizes due release of
your fund is to be issued by the US Justice Department which was designated
by the UN Charter 1142 Section 3a authentically for actualization of this
accord. Therefore, for you to be paid, you need to contact the US Justice
Department on an official Email to be given to you upon response for swift
processing of the said fund in your name and due remittance of such also by
the designated bank which name will be made known to you upon response also.

As you may know, this was in complete adherence to the demand of the World
leaders that African countries pay their citizens any unpaid debt held in
African banks or elsewhere therefore it behooves you to comply and be paid
as we wish you all the best as you move towards ending your predicaments of
not being paid for long by the African countries.

Regards,

Dr. James Brand
Director Cash Processing Unit
United Bank For Africa (UBA)

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