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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.Carman L Lapointe." <gloriaedy11@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 08:32:33 -0800
Subject: United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Development

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United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Development
Coordination, In Affiliation with World Bank.

Attention: Dear Beneficiary,

We have previously sent you emails in respect of your outstanding
compensation payment which has since been assigned to you. This
compensation is for those that lost their jobs, families ETC to Covid
19 pandemic, So therefore we are going through your payment profile
and came to a logical conclusion that you are yet to receive your 2021
Covid-19 compensation payment. We must get you informed that your
email was listed among those that are yet to receive their Covid 19
compensation payment. The United Nations in Affiliation with the World
Bank have agreed to compensate each with the sum of USD1,500, 000.00
(One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) only.

For this reason, you are to receive your payment through a certified
ATM CARD PAYMENT. Note, with this ATM Card you can withdraw money and
also make payment anywhere in the World without any problem and please
for no reason should you disclose your account information as your
account information is not and can never be needed before you receive
your card payment.

Contact Name: Mr. Martin Johnson
Email: mr.martins_johnson@yahoo.com
Tel: (352) 325-592

Please ensure that you follow the directives and instructions of
Mrs.Mariam Almeer so that within 24-72 hours you would have received
your card payment and your secret PIN Code# issued directly to you for
security reasons. We apologize on behalf of the United Nations
Development Coordination for any delay you might have encountered in
the past.

Yours Faithfully,
Assistant Secretary General-Volker Turk
United Nations for Strategic Coordination

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