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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: "INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <atmcrd01@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:30:59 +0100
Subject: OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATION,Date: 14:03:2014


ATM CARD PAYMENT DEPT
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATION
INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT,
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
Date: 14:03:2014

Attention Honorable Beneficiary,

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract
/inheritance file and found out that why you have not received your
payment
is because you have not fulfilled the obligations given to you in
respect
of your contract/inheritance payment.
Secondly we have been informed that you are still dealing with none
officials in the bank all your attempt to secure the release of the
fund to
you. We wish to advise you that such an illegal act like this have to
stop
if you wish to receive your payment since we have decided to bring a
solution to your problem.

Right now we have arranged your payment through our swift card payment
center Asia pacific, that is the latest instruction from Mr. president,
(
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan) federal republic of Nigeria.This card center
will
send you an ATM Card which you will use to withdraw your money in any
#ATM
machine in any part of the world, so if you like to receive your fund
this
way please let us know by contacting the card payment center and also
send
the following information:1. FULL NAME
2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
3. ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND THE ATM CARD TO(P.O BOX NOT
ACCEPTABLE)
4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION
5. A COPY OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION
However, kindly find below the contact person:
Dr. James Ubu
DIRECTOR, ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT
The ATM Card payment center has been mandated to issue out
$8,300,000.00
as first part quarter payment for this fiscal year 2014. Also for your
information, you have to stop any further communication with any other
person(s) or office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your ATM
payment.
For oral discussion, I can be reached on or email me back as soon as
you
receive this important message for further direction and also update me
on
any development from the above
mentioned office. 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.
Regards,
Mrs. Joy Peter
CHIEF AUDITOR TO THE PRESIDENT FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

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