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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: Simons Jean-Paul <lsanusioffce@gmail.com>
Reply-To: sjeanpauloffice@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 01:29:31 -0800
Subject: RE-IMMEDIATE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION BENEFICIARY

Our Ref: UN/OHG/OXD1/2022
Your Ref:..............................
PAYMENT FILE: UN/EU/DSF/PED/XX01/22

Attn: Beneficiary

SUBJECT: RE-IMMEDIATE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION BENEFICIARY

Definitely, I know that this letter will be a surprising one to you.
Firstly, I would like to introduce myself formally as Simons Jean-Paul
the United Nations Protocol
Officer for External Private Relations (UNA-UK) in conjunction with
European Union Diplomatic Storage Facility London Regional Office. You
are been officially
contacted by me today because your payment funds were recently
Re-deposited in a Financial Institution for safe keeping here in
London due to Corona virus / Covid 19
pandemic disease global outbreak. Well known to all, The European
Union Diplomatic Storage Facility is the mother bank of all diplomatic
agency in Europe and World in
general. This notification mail you received was to inform you that
you have been chosen by the Board of Trustees of the United Nations
Petroleum 2021 Grant Awards as
one of the final recipients of a cash Grant/Donation of valued US$D
12,500,000.00 (Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) and it is because of the
recommendation from your embassy here in United Kingdom. It might
interest you to know that President Joe Biden have unwinding his
predecessor’s Donald Trump policies
on financial matters and other issues with at least 15 executive
actions, including moves to reverse U.S withdrawals from the Paris
Agreement and the World Health
Organization, and the United Nations Petroleum Companies started up
this program to show the world that they have the concern for the well
being of the human race at
heart, and to show the world that they are truly sorry for the last
oil silage that occurred and the deadly disease Corona virus / Covid
19 pandemic outbreak.

The United Nations Grant Awards has been established by the
Multi-Million Groups and now supported by the British Government,
United States Government and the European
Union (EU) was conceived with the objective of human growth, medical,
educational, community and business development and energy service to
all due to the deadly
Corona virus / Covid 19 pandemic outbreak. But really these men were
unexpected by me because their visit was impromptu. I had to ask them
why they came to our office
in person and they said that they were here to collect your funds
consignment valued US$D 12,500,000 (Twelve Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) which
rightfully belongs to you, on your behalf. At this development, I
asked them who authorized them to come down to London for the
collection of this payment and they
stated me that you asked them to come and collect this funds on your
behalf. In fact, this was the biggest shock that this office have ever
received so far because

your funds is deposited here as personal belongings and yet you sent
these men to come and collect this funds on your behalf without
notifying this office. We in this office do not understand why you
sent these men to come and collect your funds on your behalf. You
really let us down because the present EU Legislator are the pillar of
our set up here in UK and if actually you want them to help you
collect your payment valued, at least you should have informed me as
the Protocol Officer of this office. Honestly, it really baffles me
that you took such decision without my consent. I told them to come
back and they promised to come back. As the Protocol Officer of this
noble office, I was supposed to release this funds to them but I
refused to do so because I wanted to hear from you first. Due to the
nature of my job, I will not want to make any mistake in releasing
this fund to anyone except you whom is the recognized bone fide
beneficiary to this payment funds. Anyway, I want to use this
opportunity to bring to your notice through this media, that if you
are willing to receive your payment funds, I will be willing to assist
you unconditionally
if you can agree to a gentlemanly agreement because I have reposed my
confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me. I will not
like any form of exposure
due to my position in this office and as such would want you to keep
this transaction highly confidential. Your outstanding payment funds
is still available with one of our affiliated paying bank's and you
will be informed of the right proceedings through which your funds is
to be transferred to you. For now, you are required to provide the
below stated information's of yourself to enable the processing and
release of the documents that will be required and requested by the
bank.

Full Name:
Complete Physical Address:
Mobile Phone Number:
Copy of your Identification such as Int'l Passport Copy or Driving license:

Most importantly, you should treat this communication with top
confidentiality because this transaction itself is 100% safe, provided
you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. For the sake of
my job security, I deem it pertinent to reinstate that you desist from
further contacts with whoever has been handling this transaction on
your behalf in the past, as I have been able to sift that it was their
inordinate ambition to divert your UN Awarded Payment Fund to unknown
account for their selfish interest. As soon as your above requested
data is received, Your UN Grant Awarded Certificate and UN Proof of
Fund Ownership Certificate will be processed and issued out in your
name. You will be informed via email and phone call as soon as it is
done and our paying bank's will be contacting you to facilitates the
transfer of the total sum in your favor as scheduled. It is understood
that you will be very happy to have been selected as a recipient for
this program so to avoid double claims that could lead to
disqualification and cancellation of your payment funds, you are
strictly advised to keep this notification confidential for the
main time until your payment funds has been fully and dully remitted
to you by the bank. In receipt of this confidential letter, you are
also required to Email me :
sjeanpauloffice@gmail.com with the above mentioned information as
soon as you receive this message.Anticipating your prompt response and
thanks for your
understanding.

Yours Faithfully,

Simons Jean-Paul

Protocol Officer for United Nations Petroleum
2021 Grant Awards (UNA-UK)/European Union D.S.F
International Fund Reconciliation Settlement
London, United Kingdom

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