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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <ip866198990@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:59:01 -0700
Subject: You've been selected BATCH ID: 101-2022

WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME

DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL

PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.

DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT

United Nations Headquarters,

New York, NY 10017, USA

YOUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.

 

OUR REF:UN/WR/011.4XXVX/111

YOUR REF;CBN/WBA/345-BS/2022

 

Greetings:

 

We were authorized 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 favor. 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 West Africa

(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

UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC. to pay 50 victims as compensation from your

country this December 2021 who has being Victims of Internet scam and fraud,

and your Name, email and home address.The United Nations has decided to

pay you $10,500,000 USD (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars)

each of the Internet Scam victim as compensation.

You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to

be paid this amount in this Christmas period, get back to this office as soon as

possible for the immediate payment of your $10,500,000 USD compensation funds

for this March 2022. 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 for 50 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 $10.5 MILLION 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 PROGRAMME.

 

Note that the United Nations Board of Director has signed your funds in the

favor of your name and handed it over to REV. LORD ROGERS Chief Protocol

Officer, Dispatch Unit to arrange the delivery process, you have to

contact REV. LORD ROGERS in charge of your FUNDS, as he is our

UNITED NATIONS representative in the UNITED STATE and AFRICA region,

contact him immediately for your FUNDS $10.5.MILLION USD, These funds are

for security purposes. As soon as your

 

Contact information:

REV. LORD ROGERS

Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit.

Email: ( ip866198990@gmail.com )

 

 

As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide your

present address as below to the contact in order for the Officer to effect the

change and Redirect the parcel to your home address.

 

FULL NAME:

ADDRESS:

PHONE NUMBER:

SCANNED PASSPORT OR ID:

 

He will be expecting your email and urgent attention to this email to enable

us to monitor this payment effectively. Most importantly you shall be requested

to pay the sum of $150(Only) by REV. LORD ROGERS as the Delivery fee of

your BANK DRAFT. Once you contact the Office, please request the delivery

option from him in other to avoid further delay.

 

Sincerely yours,

 

Yours Faithfully,

Secretary-General

BAN KI MOON

UNITED STATE OF AMERICA

http://www.un.org/sg

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