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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: wood@inner-mail.com
Reply-To: ahleniusmrsingabritt261@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 22:27:23 -0700
Subject: my subject


Internal Audit, Monitoring, Consulting and Investigations Division

>From Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius.

UNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

>From Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius...

Attention; sir /madam


This is to bring to your notice that After i was Retired from this
office i was appointed again and I am delegated from the United
Nations To Central Bank to pay 150 scam victims $10,000,000.00 (TEN
MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR) each.

You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed
victims to be paid this amount, get back to me as soon as possible for
the immediate payments of your $TEN,000,000.00 compensations funds. On
this faithful recommendations,we want you to know that during the last
U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarmed so much by the
world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various individuals to
the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today.

In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the
Nigerian Government is now paying 150 victims of this operators
$10,000,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations. Due
to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the
payments are to be supervised by the United Nations' Officials and the
Central Bank of Nigeria as the corresponding paying treasury
department United Bank of Africa According to the number of applicants
at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid,half of the victims are from
the United States, we still have more 36 left to be paid the
compensations of 10 m each.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was
arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby
warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any
reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of
the other criminals.

Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application
as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

You are thereby advised to contact the payment officer of the
treasury department United Bank of Africa through the following
information.

Name........................mr peter ugo

Email:..........................u365648@gmail.com
TELL.+234 7047859570

You will receive your compensations payments through which the options
You will be detailed with the modalities as you contact the private
officer of the treasury department United Bank of Africa


Sincerely yours,
Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius

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