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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "swift card payment center" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • "card center will send you an atm card" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "dear beneficiary," (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • interswitchcardoffice214@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • revduncansmith0012@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ATMSWIFT CARDCONSULTANT <atm_swift_cardconsultant@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <interswitchcardoffice214@yahoo.ca>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:23:29 +0100
Subject: PLEASE RECONFIRM URGENTLY FOR YOUR ATM-CARD DELIVERY.



CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONINTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT,ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT (CBN)CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA. Kind:Attention:Dear Beneficiary,
This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract/inheritance file and found out that why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled the obligations given to you in respect of your contract/inheritance payment.Meanwhile, a woman came to my office few days ago with a letter of claiming to be your true representative here in Nigeria to claim your over due contract fund payment, here are her information’s which she want to use to claim your fund:NAME JANET WHITEBANK NAME: CITI BANKBANK ADDRESS:ARIZONA, USA.ACCOUNT Number: 6503809428. However, do reconfirm to this office as a matter of urgency if this woman is from you so that the federal government will not be held responsible for paying into a wrong account name and Right now we have arranged your payment through our swift card payment center Asia pacific that is the latest instruction from the new elected PRESIDENT,Alhaji Umar Musa Y'Adua (GCFR)FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. AND EFCC NIGERIA. As well the INTERPOL and FBI. 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 dollars per day, so if you like to receive your fund this way please let us know by contacting the card payment center : interswitchcardoffice214@yahoo.ca or: revduncansmith0012@yahoo.es,for more information regard to your payment.And also send the following information:1. Your full name2. Phone and fax number3. Address were you want them to send the ATM CARD4. Your age and current occupation 5. Attach copy of your identification The ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER has been mandated to issue out $6,000,000.00 as part payment for this fiscal year 2006. 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. For oral discussion, call and email me back as soon as you receive t his important message for further direction and also update me on any development from the above-mentioned office.Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (ATM-822) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center by using it as your subject. Regards,Rev,Duncan SmithChief-Auditor(ATM Payment Department (CBN)
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