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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: David Allen Borders <dab0130@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2022 20:53:56 +0100
Subject: UN COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS UNIT.


How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family, You may not
understand why this mail came to you.

United Nations in a meeting that lasted for 4 hours with the World Bank
President *DAVID R. MALPASS * and the newly appointed acting United States
Secretary of State *ATHONY J. BLINKEN* approved your file as one of the
designated Beneficiary.

This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the
world, and the people that have lost their properties in the earthquakes
and tsunami United Nations and World Bank have agreed to compensate them
with the sum of $2.550 Million (Two Million Five Hundred and Fifty
Thousand United States Dollars) each, this includes every foreign
contractors that may have not received their contract sum and people that
have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that
failed due to Government problems etc.

Your name and email was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Team of
Economic and Financial Crime Commission observers and this is why we are
contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.

You are advised to contact MR. ROLF CEZAR HAENNI of HSBC BANK PLC LONDON,
as he is our representative, contact him immediately for your
Check/International Bank Draft of USD$2.550 Million (Two Million Five
Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) This funds are in a Bank
Draft for security purpose so he will send it to you and you can clear
it in any bank of your choice.

Therefore, you should send him your full Name and telephone number with
your correct mailing address, where you want him to send the Draft to you.

Contact Rolf Cezar Haenni immediately for your Check:

Email: vxl@administrativos.com

Telephone: +44 7537 121755

Goodluck and kind regards,

Mr. David Allen Borders

For: Antonio Guterres

Secretary (UNITED NATIONS).

UN making the world a better place

http://www.un.org/sg/


NOTICE: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are
addressed. Internet communications are not secured and therefore UNITED
NATION'S COMPENSATION AGENCY does not accept any legal responsibility for
the contents of this message. If you have received this email in error
please notify us immediately. This message contains confidential
information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not
the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this
e-mail.

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