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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: official <nigeriaparliament@gmail.com>
Reply-To: meganfaox20@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:39:56 -0700
Subject: re

--
United Nations Compensation Unit
In Affiliation with The World Bank/IMF
International Monetary Fund.

We are pleased to inform you that after thorough review of all unclaimed funds

worldwide, the new officials of the United Nations Organization have
been meeting

for quite some time now and recently concluded in affiliation with the IMF-

International Monetary Fund and World Bank. This email is to the
people that were

unable to receive their inheritance and awarded funds, foreign contractors that

may have not received their contract sums, among others. The United Nations in

affiliation with IMF- International Monetary Fund and World Bank have agreed to

compensate them with the sum of $4,600,000.00 U.S dollars each to the listed

beneficiaries which includes you.

The audit reports given to us show that the payment of your fund was delayed by

some dubious officers and the transaction has remained unfinished till date.

Should you follow our directives, therefore stop further communication or any

correspondence outside this office and send your Full Names, Address,

Occupation/Title, Telephone.


Note, If you received this message in your Junk/Spam folder, the
message may have

been caught by a spam filter or it might be due to network delivery
status and it

is recommended that you forward to your Inbox folder.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Gerald Abraham
Payment Reconciliation
United Nations
An Intergovernmental Organization
Whats App +1 2134291654
Email:ferrygerald122@hotmail.com

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