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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: "Dr. Jonathan A. D. Long" <admin@heng-wah.com>
Reply-To: fcmbcustomeratmservices247@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 06:34:15 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: YOUR PAYMENT VIA ATM DEBIT CARD




INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT,

ATTENTION Beneficiary.
YOUR PAYMENT VIA ATM DEBIT CARD.

The World Bank, working in relationship with First City Monument

Bank
plc and also Leeds Bank in London has concluded to issue you an

ATM
master CARD with which you can access your contract /beneficiary
amount $15.5 million 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, but the maximum is Twenty

Thousand
United States Dollars ($20,000.00) per day. So if you like to

receive
your fund in this way, please let us know by contacting the ATM
payment department and also send the following information as

listed
below:

1. FULL NAME:
2. FAX NUMBER:
3 TELEPHONE NUMBER:
4. ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
3. VALID PHONE NUMBERS:
HOME:
4. SEX:
5. PRESENT OCCUPATION:
6. BUSINESS / COMPANY NAME:

The ATM card payment center was mandated to issue out $15.5million

as
part payment for this fiscal year 2015 to you so bear with us.

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 payment.

Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of
conduct, which is (ATM-902) so you have to indicate this code when
contacting the card center by using it as your subject.

We anticipate your total compliance to this message immediately.

Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Jonathan A. D. Long
TEL:+2348028093172

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