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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: "Mr. Christopher A. Wray" <homelanddepartment471@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fbureau388@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 01:26:04 -0800
Subject: Greetings Humble Beneficiary:

Greetings Humble Beneficiary:

We were authorised by the newly appointed United Nation Secretary
General, and the Governing body of the United Nations Debt
Reconciliation Unit, to investigate the unnecessary delay on your
payment, recommended and approved in your favour. During the course of
our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has
been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials of the Bank and
Government regulatory organs in Nigeria/Benin Republic who are trying
to divert your funds into their private accounts.

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED
NATIONS in UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC. to pay 99 victims from your
country this December 2021 who has being Victims of Internet scams and
your Name and email.The United Nations has decided to pay you sum of
$20,500,000 USD (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars) each of the Internet Scam victim. You are listed and approved
for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount
in this month of December. please you are advice to get back to this
office as soon as possible for the immediate payment of your
$20,500,000 USD compensation funds for this December 2021. We have
been having a meeting for the past Seven months which ended Three days
ago with the former secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.

This email is to 99 selected people in your Country that have been
scammed or extorted money from because of your contract payment
execution in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to
compensate them with the sum of $20.5 MILLON USD This includes every
foreign contractors that may have not yet received their contract sum,
and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international
businesses that failed due to Government problems or irregularities
etc. We found your Name and email in our list and that is why we are
contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed by the
United Nations Board of Directors and Trustees from the WORLD BANK
ASSISTED PROGRAMMED.

Note that United Nations Board of Director have sign your ATM CARD in
the favour of your name and hand it over to us, In other for us to
arrange the delivery process, you have to contact Mrs. Nikki Haley in
charge of your ATM CARD, as she is our UNITED NATIONS representative in
UNITED STATE and AFRICA region, contact her immediately for your ATM
CARD of $20.5.MILLION USD, This funds are in a ATM CARD for security
purpose.

( Contact Information Of Your Agent )
(1) Name Mrs. Nikki Haley
(2) Phone Number +1 469-275-1435
(3) Email Address fileso474@gmail.com

As soon as you establish a contact with her, ensure that you provide
your present address as below to the contact in other for the Officer
to effect the change and Re-direct the parcel to your home address.

1. Full Names:
2. Gender:
3. Nationality:
4. Occupation:
5. Postal Address:
6. Residential Address:
7. Mobile Number:
8. Marital Status:
9. Age:
10. Alternative E-mail ID:
11. Copy of any identification document

She will be expecting your text message and urgent attention to this
phone number to enable us monitor this payment effectively. Once you
contact the Office, please request the delivery option from her in
other to avoid further delay.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Christopher A. Wray.

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