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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: "UNITEDNATION" <info@un.org>
Reply-To: unitednation9289@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 05:29:28 -0800
Subject: Dear Fund Beneficiary

UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS
NEW YORK, NY 10017, USA
Central Intelligence Agency / Government bureau Agency
Headquarters , Langley, Virginia, U.S.
Attn: Dear Fund Beneficiary,213
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY SEEKING TO WIRE TAP THE INTERNET
This is to inform you that, We have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa with the help of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and FBI. We have been able to track down so many of this scam artist in various parts of African countries which includes (Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana, Cameroon and Senegal) and they are all in Government custody now, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) Hague (Netherlands) soon for Criminal/Fraud Justice. During the course of our investigation, we have been able to recover so much money from these scam artists. The United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have ordered the money recovered from the Scammers to be shared among 100 Lucky people around the World for compensation. This Email/Letter is been directed to you because your email address was found in one of the Scam Artists file and computer hard-disk during our investigation, maybe you have been scammed or not, you are therefore being compensated with the sum of $,11.500,000.00USD(Eleven Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars).
We have also arrested some of those who claim that they are barristers, bank officials, Lottery Agents who has been sending you SMS on your phone that you have won a lottery which does not exist. Since your email address appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to be paid to you through ATM VISA CARD. An ATM Visa Card will be issued in your name and your $11,500,000.00 USD will be loaded into it, and deliver it to your postal address with the Pin Number, as to enable you withdrawal your funds from any Bank ATM Machine worldwide. To issue the ATM Visa Card, you are therefore advised to contact the Accountant in Charge of your payment, this is because the United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Government has chosen them to payout all the compensation funds to the 100 Lucky beneficiaries, because the ATM Visa Card is a global payments technology that enables consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. How ever you will have to fill and submit the Claims Release Verification
Full name.......................
home address Where You want us to Send Your ATM Card................
Cell phone..............
Occupation................
We advice you to stop all the communications with everyone regarding your payment and all the Governmental and non governmental prostates, NGO’s, Finance Companies, Banks, Security Companies and Diplomat(s) which have been in contact with you of late have been instructed to back up from your transaction and you have been advised NOT to respond to them anymore since we are now directly in charge of your payment . Your fund will be available to you directly from our source with immediate effect and we shall give you further details on how your fund will be released. Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions while I wait to hear from you today. You can contact me through this my alternative email address ( org.unitednation@consultant.com )
TEL: +1 806 395 8064
MR : Antonio Guterres
United Nations Funds Investigation Unit.
Chat Conversation End.

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