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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: SunTrust Bank <leonardoseverino1@tin.it>
Reply-To: atmcarduba93@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 23:58:34 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Complement Of The Season/Your ATM Master Credit Card

Notification of payment by ATM Master Credit Card


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, 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 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$10,500.000.00
USD(Ten 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/$119
FedEx=:::::72hrs/$220
DHL=:::::4days/$149

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 Card to you.

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

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. Alex Agu
Director Foreign Remittance Department
Affiliated SunTrust Bank ( Washington DC )
Contact phone number +234 70 62007504
Email: cicatmcard.uba@consultant.com

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