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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: web14@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:07:30 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?YOUR=20ATM=20MASTER=20CARD=2E?=

Hello Dear,

I have Paid for the delivery of your MASTER CARD.but the manager of CENTRAL
BANK BENIN told me that before the ATM CARD will get to you that the validity
date will be short.

So i told the director of SHALOM COMPANY to make that the ATM CARD is re-activated
before sending it to you. All the necessary payment of delivering the ATM
CARD credited with $1.500.000 was made with SHALOM COMPANY. This is the
information they need to delivery your ATM MASTER CARD to you.

1.YOUR FULL NAME
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS.
3.YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER.
4.MOBIL PHONE
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE
6.CODE: (CD0081)

SEND THE ABOVE INFORMATION TO THE DIRECTOR REV.DR.MAXSWELL SHARGAN.
REV.DR.MAXSWELL SHARGAN.

EMAIL:(s_d_c001@yahoo.fr)
PHONE:+229 93 861 888

WEB:www.shalomdeliverycompany.sarl.tk

Sincerely
SECRETARY.









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