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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:
  • "atm payment department" (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.
  • +2348033771340 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • authormatic-t-machine@accountant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <kumar_p@hathway.com>
Reply-To: atm_live_remittance@msn.com
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:25:08 -0400
Subject: From The Committee On Foreign Payment




OFFICE OF THE SENATE HOUSE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT
(RESOLUTION PANEL ON CONTRACT PAYMENT)
IKOYI-LAGOS NIGERIA
Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB
Your Ref.

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
in the bank all your attempts to secure the
release of the fund to you. We wish to advise
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 payment centre Asia pacific, that's
latest instruction from the new president,aihaji
umar musa yaradua federal republic of Nigeria.

This card centre 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 ten thousand, five hundred United States dollars
per day. So if you like to receive your funds in
this way please let us know by contacting the atm
payment department director and also
send the following information as listed below.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
1. Full Name:
2. Sex:
3. Age:
4. Tel:
5. State:
6. Country:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
However, kindly find below the contact person
Prof. Charles Amandu.
Integrated payment department
Email: authormatic-t-machine@accountant.com
Phone: +2348033771340
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The atm card payment centre has been mandated
to issue out $500,000.00 as part payment for
this fiscal year 2008. For your information,
you have to stop any further communication with
any other person(s) or office(s) to avoid any
hitch in receiving your payment. Note that
because of impostors,we hereby issue you our
code of conduct, which is (ATM-112/2008) so
you have to indicate this code when contacting
the card centre by using it as your subject.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam