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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: "Rev. Paul Smith" <gemzrock@eircom.net>
Reply-To: "Rev. Paul Smith" <rev.paulsmith075@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:06:32 +0100 (IST)
Subject: Good Day

Good Day To You beneficiary,

We are pleased to inform you that your total inheritance Fund of $4.5 Million [Four Million Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars only] has been fully accredited into an ATM MASTER CARD as it has been stipulated and directed by the ECO-WAS, IMF AND CDA. This instruction was given to us due to challenges and difficulties posed by greed set of people contacted previously to transfer your funds to you. As a result of this, and also to avoid delay and transfer expenses, we have been fully mandated to process your total funds into an ATM MASTER CARD which will enable you to cash your funds easily at your convenient time.Your ATM MASTER CARD will be able to make withdrawal in any ATM Machine any where any time worldwide.You are required to reconfirm the following information full delivery details for urgent delivery of your ATM CARD:

Your Atm card has already been activated therefore will be accessible as soon as you receive it. Get back to Our Payment Center United Bank Of Africa(UBA),as soon as you receive this E-mail for more update and directions on how to get this done immediately,

Sorry if you may receive this message in your Spam due to the poor network failure.

Yours faithfully,
Rev. Paul Smith
Director Of Atm Card Payment General.

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