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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: Quick Reply <bshettima78@gmail.com>
Reply-To: official.mail@citromail.hu
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:02:26 -0700
Subject: re

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United Nations Compensation Unit In Affiliation with The World
Bank/IMF International Monetary Fund.
We are pleased to inform you that after thorough review of all
unclaimed funds worldwide, the new officials of the United Nations
Organization have been meeting for quite some time now and recently
concluded in affiliation with the IMF- International Monetary Fund and
World Bank. This email is to the people that were unable to receive
their inheritance and awarded funds, foreign contractors that may have
not received their contract sums, among others. The United Nations in
affiliation with IMF- International Monetary Fund and World Bank have
agreed to compensate them with the sum of $4,600,000.00 U.S dollars
each to the listed beneficiaries which includes you. The audit
reports given to us show that the payment of your fund was delayed by
some dubious officers and the transaction has remained unfinished till
date. Should you follow our directives, therefore stop further
communication or any correspondence outside this office and send your
Full Names, Address, Occupation/Title, Telephone. Note, If you
received this message in your Junk/Spam folder, the message may have
been caught by a spam filter or it might be due to network delivery
status and it is recommended that you forward to your Inbox folder.
Yours Sincerely, Mr. Gerald Abraham Whats App +12134291654
Email:gfjdvdn@gmail.com

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