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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.ARONU IJEAMAKA" <WWW.@fork.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "MR.ARONU IJEAMAKA" <mraronu_ijeamaka@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:19:57 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Notification of Your Loaded ATM VISA Card Is Ready

Notification of Your Loaded ATM VISA Card Is Ready

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. and you have spend a lot of
money and a lot time sending money to different people just to

make sure you receive your fund and after set and done your received nothing. We have decided to
pay your funds through (ATM VISA Card) This arrangement was initiated/constituted by the World Bank,
United Nation and Paris Club, due to fraudulent activities going on within the world.

The World Bank, United Nations and Paris Club introduced this payment arrangement as to enable our
Contract ,Winning Prize,inheritance beneficiary to receive their

fund without any interference. the ATM VISA Card was contracted and powered by GOLD CARD WORLD WIDE.
The ATM VISA 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=48hrs/$320
FedEx=72hrs/$205
DHL=4days/$175

Note that you will be liable to pay the delivery fee of your ATM VISA Card with any of the above
courier company of your choice before the delivery will take place to your destination address.

Kindly provide me 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

VISA Card to you.

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

CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE.

BEST REGARDS,
MR.ARONU IJEAMAKA

Director Foreign Remittance Department
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Bank Benin Plc

mraronu_ijeamaka@aol.com

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