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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: "REV CHARLES NDU" <johnsonchinedu73@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: revcharlesndu@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 03:20:07 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Invitation have been extended to you to visit UBA BANK Benin
Republic for collection of your UBA BANK ATM VISA CARD and PIN NUMBER

Dear Beneficiary,

This is to let you know that we have received an instruction from the
United Nation by orders of the Ministry of Finance, Republic of Benin to
release your Approved payment of US$20 Million Dollars via UBA BANK ATM
VISA CARD which you will use to withdraw your US$20 Milli
on Dollars from any ATM Machine in any part of the world.

I must thank you and assure you that UBA BANK ATM VISA CARD number 527
439364 4673648 748; has been approved and upgraded in your favour this
morning. The amount upgraded in the ATM CARD is US$20 Million Dollars,
(TWENTY MILLION USD) and your secret pin number is 8081, Right now,

Invitation have been extended to you to visit UBA BANK Benin Republic for
collection of your UBA BANK ATM VISA CARD and PIN NUMBER so that you can
activate it by yourself and start withdrawing funds from any ATM Machine
in your country but the amount you can withdraw in a day is $23,000, per
day as we have programmed it.

Alternatively, if you are unable to visit UBA BANK Republic of Benin for
collection of this your UBA BANK ATM VISA CARD and PIN NUMBER, you must
therefore apply for the UBA BANK ATM VISA CARD and PIN NUMBER to be sent
to you via our diplomatic courier service at your own expenses
byoffsetting the following payments such as; (1) Shipment fee of the UBA
BANK ATM VISA CARD to your address amounting to US$45.00 (2) Insurance
Coverage of the UBA BANK ATM VISA CARD amounting to USUS$60.00.

Both payments is the sum of US$105.00 must be paid to enable us ship the
UBA BANK ATM VISA CARD to your address to enable you start withdrawing
your US$20 Million Dollars from any ATM machine in any part of the world.
This UBA BANK ATM VISA CARD must be insured so that it can get to you
without any problem and diversion. This is because this ATM CARD that can
be use to withdraw funds from any ATM Machine in every part of the world.

Secondly the officer in charge is .Rev Charles ndu, contact them via above
with all your detail, by contacting them to Atm card payment centre of
{UBA Bank Plc}, so contact the ATM swift card centre on this
email.(revcharlesndu@yahoo.com) phone number +229-68-27-92-16 the general
manager name Mr kingsley


And make sure you do forward to them your full information’s such as.
Your full................. Name
Your........................ country
Your........................city
Your nearest country
airport...................name
Your telephone....... number
Your correnct.............email address
Your..........................age
Your..........................marriage status
copy of your .............ID card
Your monthly............enining
where you want them to send the card through diplomatic courier Service
(P.O Box not accepted). (3) Your full name and total amount you are
expecting, Instead of losing your fund, Please indicate to the card
centre the total sum you are expecting and for your information, you have
to stop any further communication with any institution or office until
you receive the Atm card. Note: because of impostors, we hereby issue
you, your pin code of conduct tag number, which is (8081) so you must
have to indicate this code when contacting the card centre. We await your
urgent response.

So, if you cannot come to UBA BANK of Republic of Benin for collection of
your UBA BANK ATM VISA CARD, you must therefore kindly go right now To
western union and send this shipment and insurance fee of US$105.00 via
Western Union Money transfer with the details below And write your MTCN
number down and your sender name below down the details

Receiver's Name. Mmorah Austin
Country.. Benin Republic
City.. Cotonou
Text Question..WHEN
Text Answer...NOW
Amount $105.00
MTCN....
Sender...

As soon as the fee is received, we shall immediately dispatch the UBA BANK
ATM VISA CARD to you and it will take only 2 days to arrive to your
address to enable you start withdrawing funds that same day from any ATM
machine nearest to you.
Thanks for your understanding and we are waiting for your quick reply and
the payment information.
regards
Rev Charles Ndu
This massage is coming from
Foreign Contract Payments.


























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