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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: "U.N REGULATORY OFFICE" <petermike381@gmail.com>
Reply-To: whatman@ruraltel.net
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2022 18:31:42 -0800
Subject: PAYMENT

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#799 united nations plaza new York 10017, (USA)
United Nations organization financial regulatory office:

On 5th march,2022, The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC)
has made available today a total of US$102,000,000,000,000 to world
governments for distribution to 12,000,000 (Twelve Million successful
claimants emails beneficiaries). You're qualified and chosen for the
United Nations (covid19) outbreak compensation commission payment of
$8,500,000.00 USD only. Payment via MasterCard prepaid debit ATM card
or direct bank transfer. Kindly contact the below agent for more
details. Do not reply to the sender email. Kindly contact the agent
below for your claim,

CONTACT HON. Volkan Bozkir
EMAIL: uncc20office@gmail.com
phone: +1-(409)-571-2111
kindly text him for an urgent response.

yours faithfully,
prof. David Allen Quinn
United nations, public information officer,
United Nations compensation commission fund.
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