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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "atm payment department" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "hundred thousand us dollars" (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)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • atmdepartment25@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: richard dchampou <richardchampou25@hotmail.fr>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:42:11 +0100
Subject: CONTACT THE ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT.



Dear Friend,

This is to inform you about my success in transfering your money into an ATM master card to curtail the risk of carrying huge amount of money arround. The ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT of the paying Banque Populaire, are the peole that coded this amount of money in the card and they are going to tell you how to make use of it.Presently i'm out of the coutry for investing my own part of the total money .

Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in moving the cash despite that both of us could not make it. Now contact ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT via their email address, atmdepartment25@yahoo.fr and ask them to send you the sum of One Million,Two hundred thousand us dollars ( $1.200.000.00) in an ATM MASTER CARD which I kept as your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much,So feel free and get in touched with the ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT and instruct them on where to send your total share of the money to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy together after all the difficulties at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here investing with my new partner.Remember that you are going to pay a logistic and mailing fee of $125.00 only. You have no other fee to pay and do get back to me should anybody demand any dime from you after paying this $125.00. Any attempt by anybody to demand for any other money will amount to fraud and I will not waste time to involve the Police.

Finally, I have forwarded instructions to the DEPARTMENT to send the Confirmable ATM MASTER CARD to you, so feel fr ee to get in touch with the ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT of Banque Populaire and they will send the CARD to you without any delay.

Best Regards,

BARR.Richard Champou.

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