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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "swift card payment center" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • "card center will send you an atm card" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • "inheritance funds" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • atmwjohn@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: christ anthony <christanthony_902@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <atmwjohn@yahoo.it>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:50:16 +0000
Subject: FINAL NOTICE ON YOUR PAYMENT



FROM: Office of the Director of OperationsInternational Credit SettlementApex Bank of Benin Republic.
Following the agreement reached between the World Bank and the ECOWAS as regards the payment of all over due Contract/inheritance fund owed by West African Countries to the respective beneficiaries.
Instruction was given to this office to pay without delay any contract/inheritance payment funds that is verified and found satisfactory forpayment to the beneficiary .
Be officially inform that we have verified your Contract/Inheritance funds and found out that the cause of the delay in your Payment is because you have not been able to meet up with the obligations given to you in respect to your Contract / Inheritance Payment.
Be informed that your payment has now been arranged through our Swift Card Payment Center Asia Pacific as instructed by the WorldBank and the International Monetry Fund ( IMF ).The Card Center will send you an ATM Card which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM Machine all over the World, on daily basses or as you may wish. You are to contact the ATM DEBIT CARD PROCESSING UNIT with the following information:
1. Your Full Name ...................................2. Phone and Fax Number .................... 3. Address ................................................4. Your Age .............................................5. Current Occupation..........................6. A Copy of Your Identity ................... Direct all contacts hence forth through: Mr John Williams : atmwjohn@yahoo.itThe ATM Card Payment center has been mandated to release a total of £93,000,000.00 to all Beneficiaries in West Africa and Sub-West African Region which includes South Africa and few other part of the world as part payment for this fiscal year 2007.
The total sum of which US$1000,000.00 is your own payment out of the £93,000,000.00 maped out to be paid to ALL BEFEFICIARIES. For your information you have to Stop any further communication with any other Person(S) Or Office(S). This is to avoid any hitches in finalizing your payment.Note: That because of impostors, we hereby issue our code of conduct to you, (ATM-0411) so you try and make sure you indicate this code when contacting the card center @ Mr John Williams : atmwjohn@yahoo.it Sincerely,CHRIST ANTHONY
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