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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: International Credit Settlement Settlement <cscbcode04@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:10:27 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: ATM PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.



ATM Payment Notification
Swift Card Payment Office
International Credit Settlement
Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO)
Lome-Togo.

Attention:Beneficiary

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract / inheritance file presently on my desk, and the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF TOGO has found out that you have not received your inheritance payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your contract / inheritance payment.

Secondly, you are hereby advised to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately.

After the board meeting held at our headquarters, we have resolved in finding a solution to your problem, and as you may know, we have arranged your payment through our SWIFT ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe, America and Asia Pacific, which is the instruction given by his Excellency President Faure E. Gnassingbé, Federal Republic of Togo.

This card centre will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw your money in an ATM MACHINE in any part of the world.

You are to withraw $2,000.00 on each transaction. but the maximum is $15,000.00 (Fifteen Thousand US Dollars) per day. so if you like to receive your fund this way please let us know by contacting the card payment office and also send the following information:

(1) Your Full Name
(2) Address where you want the payment centre to send your ATM CARD.
(3) Phone And Fax Number
(4) Your Total Inheritance Fund to be received.
(5) Your Next of Kin

Contact person:
Adji O.Ayassor
National Director (BCEAO)
Email : ( bceaocardtg@mail.org ) or ( atmcardoffice.togo@yahoo.com )


Instead of loosing your fund, The ATM card payment office has been mandated to issue out $5,500,000.00 as part payment for this fiscal year 2008.

Also 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.

On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me for more details and direction, and also please do update me with any new development.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Regards,
From Mr. Graham Peter,
Swift Card Payment Office

Note: Because of impostors, we hereby issue you with our code of conduct, which is (00TG) so you have to indicate this code when contacting this CARD CENTRE.





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