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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: "Dr. Andrew Richardson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <andrewrichardson@yahoo.cn>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 08:36:41 +0200
Subject: UNPAID BENEFICARY

Attn: Beneficiary,



This is to congratulate you for scaling through the hurdles of screening by the board of directors of this payment task force. Your payment file was approved and
The instruction was given us to release your payment and activate your ATM card for use.
The first batch of your card which contains US$950,000.00 Thousand U.S. DOLLARS has been activated and is the total fund loaded inside the card. Your fund which is in
Total US$950,000.00 Thousand U.S. DOLLARS will come to you


Your payment would be sent to you via UPS or FedEx, because we have signed a contract with them which should expired by June 2011.Below are few list of
Tracking numbers you can track from UPS website (www.ups.com) (www.fedex.com) to confirm people like you who have received their payment successfully.

JOHNNY JOSH ============== 1ZA0T5861274856718
Dennis Peeks============== 483241592372

We have an agreement with the courier company that you should pay only delivery charges of your card which is only $200 U.S. DOLLARS by FedEx or UPS Delivering Company.
However, you have only three working days to send this $200 U.S. DOLLARS for the delivering of your card, if we don't hear from you with the payment information; the Federal Government will cancel the card.

You are to send the Delivering fee in the name of My Secretary Andrea Jerry, send it via Western Union Money Transfer or Money gram and let me have the detail as soon as you send it.
Please confirm your full information by tomorrow your ATM Card will be delivered to you and I need you to send me a scanned copy of your id
This is the paying information that you will use and send the fee through western union money transfer or money gram below.

Receivers; Name: Andrea Jerry
Receivers: Address: Lagos, Nigeria
Test Question: Sent
Test Answer: Yes

Senders Name.
Address.
Mtcn

I wait the payment information to enable us proceed for the delivering of your card. And when sending the payment information also reconfirm to us your full home address were to deliver the Card to avoid any mistake on the delivery.

Thank you and have a wonderful day.

Dr. Andrew Richardson
Director ATM Swift Card/Foreign Operation Dept,
Intercontinental Bank Plc
CALL ME +2347042183122
andrewrichardson@yahoo.cn

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