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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: ernst friedrich <richardcook@dsl.pipex.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: departmentofficial@outlook.com
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:25:22 +0100
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam



--
OUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX099X UNITED NATIONS.
(WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME)
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
ADDRESS: NEW YORK, NY 10017, UNITED STATES.
WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT

Attention: Honorable Beneficiary:

IRREVOCABLE PAYMENT ORDER VIA ATM CARD

We have actually been authorized by the newly appointed united nation secretary
general, and the governing body of the UNITED NATIONS monetary unit, to
investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment, recommended and approved in
your favor. During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay
that your payment has been unnecessarily Delayed by corrupt officials of the
Bank who are Trying to divert your funds into their private accounts.

To forestall this, security for your funds was organized in the form of your
personal Identification number (PIN) ATM CARD and this will enable only you to
have direct Control over your funds in the ATM CARD. We will monitor this
payment ourselves to avoid the hopeless situation created by the Officials of
the bank.

An irrevocable payment guarantee has been issued by the Presidency, Federal
Republic of Benin on your Payment. However, we are happy to inform you that
based on our recommendation/instructions, your complete contract funds has bee
credited in your favor through ATM CARD. You are therefore advice to contact:

Mr. Dexter Zachary
Director ATM Department Societe Generale Bank
EMAIL ADDRESS: departmentofficial@outlook.com
Direct Telephone lines: +229-6651-7274

Contact him now for the delivery of your ATM card. As soon as you establish a
contact with him, an ATM card will be issued to you immediately that you can use
to withdraw your funds in any ATM machine in any part of the world, but the
maximum is Ten Thousand dollars per day. So if you like to receive your funds
through this means you're advised to contact the ATM card payment center with
the following information as sta ted below:

1. YOUR FULL NAME.
2. PHONES AND FAX NUMBER,
3. ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND YOUR ATM CARD
TO (P.O BOX NOT ACCEPTABLE)
4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION
5. YOUR COUNTRY.


Note: you are advice to furnish Mr. Dexter Zachary with your correct and valid
details. Also be informed that the amount to be paid now is ($20,500.000.00)
twenty million five hundred thousand USD only including interest)

We expect your urgent response to this email to enable us monitor this payment
effectively thereby making contact with Mr. Dexter Zachary as directed to avoid
further delay, If however this Email address is not belong to you, kindly delete
this message from your mailbox, and pretend that we never contacted you, because
we shall continue our research until we get the owner of this Email address,
thanks for your understanding.

Congratulations.

CAPT. Ernst Friedrich
United Nation New York

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