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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: ATM PAYMENT CARD <www.info_atmcardpaydept@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:08:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: STILL URGENT SEND INFORMATION ASAP.


Dear Rainhard Schwatzer ,

Thank you for your mail which i fully understand. you are really trying in your english which is not bad and i can understand you well.

well you will agree with me that we have wasted alot of time in the transaction because of your curiosity inorder to find the reality of this bargain.

For us to enter the next step i want you to provide as follows.

1. your full contact address.
2. your phone, fax, mobile number.
3. a scan copy of your international passport picture which is needed to process some vital documents that gives you power to receive and claim the money.

Note: once i get this information today, hopefully by monday next week, you will be going to belgium to receive the money $3.8million which will be sent to belgium through global worldwide security.

finally, please kindly send the information today to work on the documents so that by friday everything will be ready.
i hope to hear from you.

Regards,
Dr Ben Frank.


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