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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: project files <projectfiles003@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 04:23:53 -0700
Subject: FUNDS PAYMENT ORDER VIA ATM CARD

FUNDS
PAYMENT ORDER VIA ATM CARD

This is to inform you that we have been working towards the
eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa with the help of
the Organization of African Unity (OAU) United Nations (UN), European
Union (EU) and FBI. We have been able to track down some scam artist
in various parts of African countries which includes (Nigeria,Burkina
faso, Republic of Benin, Ghana and Senegal) and they are all in
Government custody now, they will appear at International Criminal
Court (ICC) soon for Justice.

During the course of investigation, they were able to recovered some
funds from these scam artists and IMF organization have ordered the
funds recovered to be shared among the 50 Lucky people listed around
the World as a compensation. This notice is been directed to you
because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file
and computer hard-disk while the investigation, maybe you have been
scammed. You are therefore being compensated with sum of $2.800.000.00
(Two million Eight Hundred Thousand USD) US Dollars.

Since your email address is among the lucky beneficiaries who will
receive a compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to be paid
to you through ATM VISA CARD and deliver to your postal address with
the Pin Numbers as to enable you withdrawal maximum of $5000 on each
withdrawal from any Bank ATM Machine of your choice, until all the
funds are exhausted.

The ATM Card with Security Pin Numbers shall be delivered to you using
Express Mail Service (EMS) .

The package is coming from Lome, Republic of Togo. don't forget to
re-confirm your following information.

1. Your Full Name:
2. Address Where You want us to Send Your ATM Card
3. Cell/Mobile Number:

We advice you to stop all the communications with everyone regarding
your payment as we have short listed to deliver to you and now urge
you to comply and receive your ATM Card funds.

Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions while I wait
to hear from you today.

Yours in Services

Mr.ISRAEL.N.N.
CORDINATOR COMMITTEE.
ET DE L'ECONOMIE(M.F.E)
REPUBLIQUE DU TOGO.
TEL:+228 96 15 84 14.
Email:israel.nzekwe@barid.com

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