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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: Miss Rose Ann <info@ferachiusa.com>
Reply-To: atmcardoffice@everyday.com.kh
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:53:36 +0200
Subject: Re: your payment notification (ATM Mode of Payment)



From: The Office of Federal Ministry of Finance.
Honorable Minister of Finance.
Abuja , Nigeria .
Service Email: atmcardoffice@everyday.com.kh
Re: Your Payment Notification.


Attention: Beneficiary,


Re: your payment notification (ATM Mode of Payment)



This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract
inheritance file presently on my desk, and we found out that you have not
received your payment due to lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the
obligations giving to you in respect to your contract/inheritance and lottery
payment through your payment bank. Secondly, you are hereby advice to stop
dealing with them and the 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
neither through contract payment, inheritance (next of kin) and lottery
payment, involve is E.g. (Nigeria, Africa, Europe and London, U.K). After the
board meeting held at our headquarters with the new Honorable Minister of
Finance; Dr. Mansur Muhtar OFR , we have resolved in finding a
solution to your
problem, and as you may know, we have arranged your payment through our ATM
Swift Card payment center, which is then instruction given by our minister of
finance.


(1) Your full name:......................


(2) Your address where you want the payment center to send your ATM card
through UPS Service:..............


(3) Phone and fax number:................


(4) Age and Occupation:..................


(5) Your nearest international air port in your city of
residence:...............


(6) Mode of payment: ATM card.


We shall be expecting to receive your informations, you have to stop any
further communication with anybody or office and not to send that thousands of
dollar to them because we are investigating on your transaction through the
Unite State FBI and Interpol. On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me
for more details and direction, and also please do update me with any new
development and send all the email you have receive so far to my office soon
and also payment that you have made to enable us locate them. Note
that because
of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (ATM-811) so
you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center by using it as
your subject. We look forward to serving you better and you can Reply to this
email address only: service email: atmcardoffice@everyday.com.kh , so your ATM
CARD
can be issue to you.


Thanks for your co-operation and Waiting to hear from you soonest.


We look forward to serving you better.


Best regards,


Dr. Rose Ann OFR, (OON)
Permanent Secretary to Dr. Mansur Muhtar (OFR)
Honorable minister of finance.

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