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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: ATM CARD <atmcardofficebf@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:46:32 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: ATM CARD NOTIFICATION!


 Foreign Remittance Department Manager
African development bank
Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso .
West Africa.
RE- ATM CARD NOTIFICATION!

Attn Sir/Madam

This is to officially inform you that we have been Designated by the
AFRICA UNION, AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK and also ECOWAS ( Economic
Community of west African States) Parliament as one of the Accredited (Empowered)
institution to verify all Outstanding Payment Owed by most African
indigenous banks and organizations.

Be informed that most president of the ECOWAS Sub-region has endorsed the
resolution passed by the senate committee of the regional body, with the
help of it's newly appointed finance minister that all foreign
contractors,foreign inheritance beneficiaries owe by any African financial institution
under the ECOWAS sub-region should be paid.

We will like to inform you that your Payment File is short listed for this
first Quarter of 2015. Your due payment has been approved and will be
Remitted without further Delay through ATM CARD as Approved by the Senate
Appropriation Committee of ECOWAS and endorsed by the various President.

Secondly we have been informed that you are still dealing with the none
officials in the Africa Development Bank, in an attempt to secure the
release of the fund to you.

We wish to advise you that such an illegal act has to stop if you wish to
receive your payment since we have decided to bring solution to your
problem.

As it stands now, we have arranged your payment through a secured payment
system using our swift card payment center Asia Pacific, that is the
latest instruction from Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
and THE ENTIRE AFRICAN GOVERNMENT.

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 desire
to receive your fund in this way, Kindly forward to this office
(atmcardofficebf@gmail.com) they are the official courier express in charge to
deliver your ATM CARD to your door step.

Your acceptance letter, and a brief profile about yourself through this
medium and also send the following information as listed below

1. Full names
2; Phone number (Private)
3. Address where you would prefer the ATM card sent to you (P.O Box Not
Acceptable)
4. Your age and current occupation
5. Attach copy of your identification

We have been Mandated by the ECOWAS Parliament to issue out $1.3m as part
payment for this fiscal year 2015. Also for your information, you have to
stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) to
avoid any hitch in receiving your payment as Scheduled.

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. Also you are required to send
your response to Atmcard Payment Center
( atmcardofficebf@gmail.com)  


Regards

Adama Williams
HEAD -ATM UNIT
+22668313240

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