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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "card center will send you an atm card" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • "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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2340803316285
• 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.
  • rev.johnobi@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3arev.johnobi@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "edmund martins" <edmartins57@me.by>
Reply-To: edmundmartins1@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:30:07 +0100
Subject: YOUR PAYMENT THROUGH ATM CARD.


INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
MR EDMUND MARTINS
OCEANIC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC.

DEAR SIR/MADAM,

THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE VERIFIED YOUR
CONTRACT/INHERITANCE FILE AND FOUND OUT THAT WHY YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR
PAYMENT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT FULFILLED THE OBLIGATIONS GIVEN TO YOU IN
RESPECT OF YOUR CONTRACT / INHERITANCE PAYMENT.

SECONDLY WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT YOU ARE STILL DEALING WITH THE NONE
OFFICIALS OF THE BANK ALL IN YOUR ATTEMPT TO SECURE THE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND
TO YOU.

WE WISH TO ADVICE YOU THAT SUCH AN ILLEGAL ACT LIKE THIS HAVE TO STOP IF YOU
WISH TO RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT SINCE WE HAVE DECIDED TO BRING A SOLUTION TO
YOUR PROBLEM.

RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ARRANGED YOUR PAYMENT THROUGH OUR SWIFT CARD PAYMENTS ASIA
PACIFIC, THAT IS THE LATEST INSTRUCTION BY THE NEW ELECTED PRESIDENT FEDERAL
REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. PRESIDENT UMARU MUSAYAR'ADUA ON HIS SPEECH WHEN CHIEF
OLUSEGUN OBASANJO (GCFR) WORD IN HIM AS THE PRESIDENT FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
NIGERIA.

THIS CARD CENTER WILL SEND YOU AN ATM CARD WHICH YOU WILL USE TO WITHDRAW
YOUR MONEY IN ANY ATM MACHINE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, BUT THE MAXIMUM IS
(TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLAR PER DAY), SO IF YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE YOUR FUND THIS
WAY PLEASE LET US KNOW BY CONTACTING THE CUSTOMER CARE SERVICE CARD PAYMENT
CENTER AND ALSO SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION;

1. YOUR FULL NAME:
...........................................................................
2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER:
....................................................................
3. ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THE ATM TO BE SEND:
................................................
4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION:
.........................................................
5. A COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY ATTACHED IT TO
E-MAIL.............................................

CUSTOMER CARE SERVICE.

REV. JOHN OBI
INTEGRATED PAYMENT DEPARTMENT.
Email:rev.johnobi@hotmail.com <Email%3Arev.johnobi@hotmail.com>
PHONE:234 8027032824


THE ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER HAS BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT$8,300,000.00 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
FINALISING YOUR PAYMENT.CALL ME ON MY DIRECT NUMBER +234-080 33162855 . AS
SOON AS YOU REPLY TO THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR FURTHER DIRECTION IN THIS
REGARD AND ALSO UPDATE ME ON ANY DEVELOPMENT FROM THE ABOVE MENTIONED
OFFICE.

NOTE: THAT BECAUSE OF IMPOSTORS, WE HEREBY ISSUED YOU OUR CODE OF CONDUCT,
WHICH IS (OCEANI BANK 225) SO YOU HAVE TO INDICATE THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING
THE CARD CENTER.

MR EDMUND MARTINS.
DIRECTOR OCEANIC BANK PLC.
PAYMENT FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

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