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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: "Metropolitan Police Service of London" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <aidan.stewart27@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:03:22 -0000
Subject: Approval Notice From Metropolitan Police Service of
london......

Metropolitan Police Service of London (Scotland Yard)
Anti-Terrorist and Monitory Crime Division.
Metropolitan Police Service of London
8-10 Broadway
Westminster, London.
SW1H 0BG.United Kingdom
TEL: +44-7024-075-049 or +44-7039-408-326

Attn: Beneficiary,

This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr Frank Nweke, Dr. Philip Mogan, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Barr. Derrick Smith, kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Larry Christopher, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen, Dr. Philip Mogan, Paul Adim, Puppy Scammers are impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of Investigation. During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment.

Therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry Of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by coordinating your payment in total USD$11,000.000.00 in an ATM CARD which you can use to withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a maximum of $4000 to $5000 United States Dollars daily. You now have the lawful right to claim your funds in an ATM CARD.

Since the Metropolitan Police Service of London is involved in this transaction, you have to be rest assured that this is 100% risk free. It is our duty to protect Citizens from various backgrounds and countries. All I want you to do is to contact the ATM CARD CENTER via email for their requirements to proceed and procure your Approval Slip on your behalf.

CONTACT INFORMATION
NAME: Mr. Aidan Stewart
EMAIL: aidan.stewart27@yahoo.com.hk
Telephone: +2348190133322

Do contact Mr Aidan Stewart of the ATM PAYMENT CENTER with your details:

FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
TELL:
CELL:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
BANK NAME:
AGE:
SEX:

As soon as this information’s have been received, he would inform you of the next step to take.If you ever have any problems with receiving your monies from the ATM PAYMENT CENTER, do not hesitate to give us a call here at the Scotland Yard; our direct telephone number is at the top of this mail. We also advise that you follow only instructions given by Mr Aidan Stewart.

Below are the tracking numbers of some people who received their cards just like you are about to.

The tracking numbers of a few that received their cards via UPS(www.ups.com) are as follows:

JOHNNY ALMANTE ==============1Z2X59394198080570
GARY METZGER ==============1Z2X59394195952759
GLEN PAPANIKAS ==============1Z2X59394198690947

Here is another set people that received their payment through FEDEX (www.FEDEX.com).

RICHARD AUTRY ============== 869713119185
GARY METZGER ============== 871363130860
MARK STUBBS ==============871363116168




JOHN ACTON
FOR THE DIRECTOR,
Metropolitan Police Service of London (Scotland Yard)

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Mr. Aidan Stewart of the ATM CARD CENTER who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.

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