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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: "Ms. Amina J. Mohammed" <mistressdaniella17@gmail.com>
Reply-To: barr.braywilliams01@aliyun.com
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 08:34:00 -0700
Subject: Please Contact Barr.Bray Williams.

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.


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 Nigeria who are trying to divert your funds into their
private accounts.

Therefore, we want to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the
UNITED NATIONS to pay 50 victims from your country who has being Victims of
internet scam and the the United Nations has decided to pay you $2,500,000
USD (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) each and you
have been listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed
victims to be paid this amount.

Meeting has been going on for the past 3 months which ended today how this
programme could be perfected but today we came to conclusion for payment to
the victims whose email addresses is among the 50 selected people that has
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 amount mentioned above which includes every
foreign contractors that may have not yet received their contract,lottery
and inheritance fund and people that had an unfinished transaction or
international businesses that failed due to government problems or
irregularities etc.

We found your email address in our list and that is why we are contacting
you for this has been agreed and signed by the United Nations Board of
Directors and Trustees from the WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME which series
of emails in this regards has been sent to you but no respond from you.

However, in the course of our routine securitization into our dispatch
alert we discovered that the document of your fund is intact and very much
available but note that United Nations Board of Director have made payment
to you by automated teller machine (ATM card) which was signed in your name
and handed over to Barrister Bray Williams the financial secretary to
Fatoumata Ndiaye Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services,
Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS)

You have to contact Barrister Bray Williams in charge of your ATM CARD via
his direct email as he is the UNITED NATIONS representative in AFRICA
region, please contact him immediately for the delivery of your ATM CARD to
your house address, we have made this payment to you in the form of ATM
CARD for security purpose and all the necessary documents to proof the
legitimacy and ownership of the fund will be send to you together with the
ATM card.

Contact Person: Barrister Bray Willliams
Email: barr.braywilliams01@aliyun.com

As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide your
current address as stated below as to get you contacted in other for him to
effect immediate delivery of your ATM card to you, most importantly you
shall be requested to pay the sum of $250 (Only) by Barrister Bray
Willliams as the delivery fee of your ATM CARD to your house address which
was agreed by the United Nations Board of Directors and Trustees and don't
be skeptical about sending the fee to him.

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
AGE/GENDER:
IDENTIFICATION CARD/DRIVER'S LICENCE:

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SEND THIS REFERENCE NUMBER TO BARRISTER BRAY WILLIAMS
FOR QUICK RECOGNITION VERY IMPORTANT (WB/NF/UN/XX028)

Yours Faithfully,

Ms. Amina J. Mohammed,
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

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