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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:

• 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)
  • "transfer of your funds" (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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348082186098 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Payment Card <payment.card@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mrs_beeny_okoh@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:12:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: THE NEWLY PRESIDENTIAL APPROVED PAYMENT BY ATM CARD








OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH THE DESK OF MRS.BENNY OKOH
THE SECRETARY TO THE SENATE PRESIDENT [DR.DAVID MARCK]
TEL.NO:234-80-82186098

ATTENTION: CATEGORY “A” CONTRACTOR WITH THE NIGERIA GOVT., Date: 19-9- 2007


Re- THE NEWLY PRESIDENTIAL APPROVED PAYMENT BY ATM CARD

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract/inheritance file and have found out the reason why you have not received your payment are because you have not fulfilled the obligations given to you in respect of your contract/inheritance payment. Secondly we have been informed that you are still dealing with the none officials in the banks in Nigeria and outside Nigeria illegally, because they are not the authorized body or bank to handle your contract payment. We confirmed that since you have been dealing with them all your entire attempt to secure the release of the fund to you was all aborted with different stories of illegal fees payment which they will bend you to pay to enable the transfer of your funds, which after you have made the payment they will transfer your funds to your account as they have promised you. And this always happen because they are not the authorized officers in charge of your funds payment to your bank anymore and that is
the reason why they cannot pay you your inheritance contract funds because they are operating illegally with you.

In this regards we wish to advice you that such an illegal act like these have to stop if you wish to receive your payment since we have decided to bring a solution to your problem. Right now we have arranged your payment through our swift card payment center Asia, United States and Europe pacific that is the latest instruction from the newly elected Nigeria president Alhaji, Umaru Musa Yara’adua, Federal Republic of Nigeria and IMF. 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 thirty five thousand dollars per day, so if you like to receive your fund this way please let us know by contacting the Director, Foreign remittance/telex department of the ATM Card Payment Center . And also send the following information:

[1.] Your full name [2.] Your address were you want them to send the ATM card
[3.] Y our telephone and fax number [4.] Your driver’s license or international passport

The ATM card payment center has been mandated to issue out USD2.3million first as part payment or accrued interest for this fiscal year 2007 so that you will from money to clear the necessary debt you may have incurred through the purse of your full contract which will as well be paid to you after you have receive your accrued interest as a part payment of your funds. 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 this 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.

Best regards,

FOR THE SENATE PRESIDENT;

THROUGH THE DESK OF MRS. BENNY OKOH
THE DIRECT SECRETARY TO THE SENATE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA.




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