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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: "Mr. Victor Sam" <annalisa.aldrighetti@alice.it>
Reply-To: atmcard_delivery@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:15:16 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE

GOOD DAY:

We hereby officially notifying you about the present arrangement to pay you,
your over due Winning Prize/inheritance fund which you could not complete the
process of the released of your transfer pin code through the Digitized Payment
System. We have decided to pay your funds through (ATM Master Express Credit
Card) This arrangement was initiated/constituted by the World Bank, British
High Commission, United Nation and International Monetary Fund "IMF", due to
fraudulent activities going on within the world.

The World Bank, United Nations and IMF introduced this payment arrangement as
to enable our Contract, Winning Prize,inheritance beneficiary to receive their
fund without any interference. the ATM Master Express Credit Card was
contracted and powered by GOLD CARD WORLD WIDE.

The ATM MASTER EXPRESS CARD is credited with the sum of$5,500.000.00 USD(Five
Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars), it is already loaded in
the Master Card which you can use to access your fund in any ATM Stand/location
worldwide and remember that the maximum withdrawal daily limit is Ten Thousand
United States Dollars(US$10,000.00) we have concluded delivery arrangement with
the below courier services companies and their delivery time is stated below.

UPS First class ======= 24hr 1DAY
FedEx First class======== 48hrs 2DAYS
DHL fisrt class ========= 48hrs 2DAYs
TNT first class ========= 72hrs 3DAYs

DESCRIPTION OF PARCEL:

ATM card/original certificate of weight :—----–0.20kg
Bonded draft of weight :——————0.17kg
Total weight of parcel :——————–0.37kg
Color of Parcel :—————————-Dark Brown
Length of days :——————————24hours
Delivery Type:——————————-Premium Service
Delivery Status:——————————Virtual Pending
Customer Number:————————–FRAl45771001

Your parcel contains ALL the legal documents from the higher offices.

Contact the ATM CARD department :
Dr. koffi Adams. Director Atm Department
Email to contact :{ atmcard_delivery@yahoo.com }
Call for more detail: +299-9699-3998

Kindly provide them with the below details in your response to this email and
let me know which courier company you would want us to use for the shipment of
your ATM Card to you.

1. Full Names:__________
2. Valid Delivery Address:____________
3. Phone Number:__________
4. Occupation:__________
5. Age:________
6. Sex:_________

Here is one of our customer that received his card few weeks ago here is
tracking number

www.fedex.com
FedEx Tracking Number :---- 781713183310

HERE IS CARD INFO
1. Credit Card Number:----- 4565342104821427
2. Pin Code:------ (keep it secret for security reason)
3. CCV Pin:----- 1533

Understand that you will be liable for the delivery fee of your ATM Master
Express Card to you with any of the above courier company.

CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE.

BEST REGARDS,
Mr. Victor Sam
Director Foreign Remittance Department
( United Bank for Africa )

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