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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: "MR FRANKLIN AMAECHI" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <franklin.amaechi@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:42:14 -0700
Subject: RE: YOUR PAYMENT BY ATM VIA OUR CARD CENTER IN ENGLAND

>From the desk of
The Director of Operations
International Credit Settlement
Central Bank of Nigeria

Attn: Beneficiary.

We have come to noticed and observed that your outstanding inheritance funds with the Federal Government Nigeria is yet to be received, due to the fact that for years now,you have been dealing with none and geniue officials of the bank and agencies.

On this faithful reconciliation and verifications, we discovered that you've been dealing with none officials of the bank and agencies on your attempt and curiosity to secure the release of your inheritance funds. We wish to bring to your notice that we are neck deep to check this gross misconduct by those syndicates who slight down th dignities of Federal Republic of Nigeria to international communities.

With the combine efforts of the United Nations Anti-crime commission to alleviate and redeem the image and past wounds of some foreigners and firms who were defrauded of their money on the course of trying to receive their payment.

The Federal Government of Nigeria is presentingly compensating some individuals and firms with "Substantial Evidences" that their money was falsefully collected from those none officials of banks here. The compensation at present is $750,000.00 (SEVEN HUNDRED $FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY) to each of those victims. "This is highly confidential to avoid those hoodlums to note this development" We have decided to bring a solution to your own problem. Right now we have arranged your payment through our swift card payment center in United Kingdom, which is the test instruction by the new acting president of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

This card center will process a visa Atm card and send to you,which you would be used to withdraw your money from any Atm machine in any part of the world.Note this Atm card will be programmed for a of maximum withdrawal of $2,500 Only per day. You are hereby requested to reconfirm the following details immediately ,to avoid any error or mistakes while forwarding the data to the card center.

1. Your full name.
2. Phone and fax number.
3. Address were you want them to send the ATM card to.
4. Your current occupation.
5.Any form of your personal identification.



The Atm card payment center has been instructed and mandated to process and issue US$750,000.00 to you as part payment for this fiscal year 2010. Also for your information you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s). This is to avoid any further problem in finalizing your payment,or getting involved into any more scam trap.

Email me back as soon as you receive this email,with the above requested and also for the contact detail of the card center in England.

Note: Because of imposters, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (2121-A1) and payment ref.no: CBN-UN/NG/XX/10. Note you must indicate this code of conduct and ref.no. when contacting the card center.

(Mr Franklin Amaechi)
Director of Operations

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