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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: "FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE \(FIC\)" <office.alart1759@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE \(FIC\)" <george.moore43@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 02:08:47 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE (FIC)



FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE (FIC)
Mecus Office: No: 793 York Road Ewu apku-akpu Benin Republic

GREETINGS: Dear,
YOU’RE COMPENSATION FUNDS PAYMENT ORDERD TO BE PAID 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 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with FBI. We have been
able to track down so many of this scam artist in various parts of African countries which includes (Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana, Cameroon and Senegal) and they are all in Government custody now, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) Hague (Netherlands) soon for Criminal/Fraud Justice.

During the course of our investigation, we have been able to recover some funds from these scam artists. But the United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have ordered the money recovered from the Scammers to be shared among 100 Lucky people listed in my office file as scammed people to be compensated. This Email/Letter is been directed to you because your email address was found in one of the Scam Artists file and computer hard-disk during our investigation, maybe you have been scammed or not, you are therefore being compensated with the sum of $,1.500, 000.00USD (One Million Five
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars).
 
Noted: We have also arrested some of those people who claim to be barristers, bank officials, Lottery Agents who has been sending you SMS on your phone telling you that you have won a lottery which does not exist. Now since your email address appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a compensation funds, we promise to arrange your payment to be paid to you through ATM VISA CARD. And the ATM Visa Card will  be issued on your name and your $1,500,000.00 USD will be loaded into it, for safety delivery to your postal address with the Pin Number, to enable you withdraw your funds from any bank that has ATM Machine

To issue the ATM Visa Card, you are therefore advised to follow our instruction, because the United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the Government has chosen to payout all the compensation funds to the 100 Lucky beneficiaries through DEBIT CARD, because the ATM Visa Card is a global payments technology that enables consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments to use digital currency instead of cash and checks.

So kindly contact now with the below details for the delivery of your package and as soon as you comply back to me with your full info, the tracking number which you can use to track down your funds will be forward to your email address, but the maximum daily withdrawal limit is $15,000.00 per day at any bank worldwide, so if you like to receive your funds through this means you're advised to submit current info such as

Your Full Name:
Home Address: Were You Want the ATM Card to be
delivered to or (P.O Box)
Date of birth:
Current Occupation:
Cell/Mobile Number: 

Contact Office Info
Tel: + 229 997 505 43
Fax: + 765 430 776 32

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) also concluded every legal cost from all the various financial offices to enable a successful delivery of your package without any hitch or delay based on the agreement made, every beneficiary is mandated to bear the fixed cost of $250 for delivery to designated address through delivery company like dhl etc and based on the fact that your ATM Card has already been activated for instant use,

Please be inform that you have only three working days to send this $250 US-dollars for the delivering of your card, but if we did not hear  from you with the payment information; it will cost that Provincial Government will cancel the card for security purpose and your payment will be
withdrawn.

Be warned, as The United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) does not instructed any other Bank or agent in this payment please, we advice you to stop all the communications you are having with any other Agent or bank officials in Europe, Asia and Africa regarding your payment.

YOURS IN SERVICES
Mr. George Moore
OFFICER (FIC) REPUBLIC OF BENIN

PUBLIC INFORMATION: Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions.

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