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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: "Mrs Betty J. Friend wright." <amiramilli201@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ace.couriercompany@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 18:57:15 +0800
Subject: Re'' ..02-03-2022..Notification..

NATION FACT FINDING AND APPROVAL OF FOREIGN DEBT PAYMENT
(WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAM)
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS FIRST AVENUE, NEW YORK 10017
WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT
Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX027.


Attention,

Having understood your unstable situation, we in the United Nations pleaded
with Ace Security Company , to accept payment by installment on your
behalf, to enable beneficiaries receive their payment that we may reconcile
with all countries of the world. We understood your plight as someone who
have endured a lot to get this fund into your private account.

Write the Ace Security Company , and request that you want the money to be
transferred to your account by install-mental or in full payment, so that
once the first payments gets into your account you can then use money from
there to facilitate the transfer of the rest, once the first installments
enters into your account that will equally give you another opportunity to
do a test-transfer and withdrawal from your account to master Federal
Reserve Online transfer procedure.

By calculations: if $700 can handle US$10Million then $350 can also
comfortably transfer the sum of US$5Million. Once the US$5Million is
successfully transferred, you can withdraw money from there to handle the
transfer of the rest of US$5Million.

NOTE: Write the Ace Security Company to tell them how much you have in
hands so that the ACE we calculate to tell you how much you may receive as
first payment through installments, Do not be shy to indicate the amount
you have in hands (no proper-amount is little to trigger
installments-payment base on our discussion with the ACE so that the first
payment will move to your account for you to confirm the existence of the
fund before your proceed for the balance.

Finally, We have chosen Ace Security Company to release your Fund to you,
so you are therefore advised to contact the Ace Security Company with the
following information. Do contact: Mr Charles Lorencea email address (
ace.couriercompany@gmail.com ) Tell: +1(332)252-5766 Send him your direct
phone number and contact address as we sincerely apologize for the plight
you have gone through in the past while trying to receive your money.
Thanks for adhering to this instruction and once again accept our
congratulations..


Congratulations!


Mrs Betty J. Friend wright.
(UN) SECRETARY GENERAL
Copyright (c) 2021
United Nation Organization
All Rights Reserved.

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