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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:
  • "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • atmpaymentdept207@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "godwin.eze" <godwin.eze@orange.nl>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:47:20 +0100 (CET)
Subject: CONTACT THE ATM PAYMENT CENTER FOR YOUR ATM CARD,


Attention Beneficiary;

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract/overdelayed payment inherritage file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your
contract payment.Secondly, you are hereby adviced to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately.After the board meeting held at our headquarters, we have resolved in finding a
solution to your problem, and as you may know, we have arranged your payment through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe, America,Africa and Asia Pacific, which is the instruction given by our president, Dr.Thomas Yayi Boni (RB) Republic of Benin.

This card centre will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw your money from any ATM office in your locations in any part of the world, but the maximum is ($1,500.00) Thousand Us Dollars per transaction and you can withdraw 3 times par day which is $4,500.00 So if you like to receive your fund this way, please due reconfirm the followings as stated below

1. Full Name
2. Phone And Fax Number
3. Address Were You Want Us To Send The ATM Card To
(P.O Box Not Acceptable)
4. Your Age And Current Occupation
5. Attach Copy Of Your Identification

We shall be expecting to receive your information you have stop any further communication with anybody or office. On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me for more details and direction, and also please do update me with any new development. You are advice to contact us with
below E-mail address: atmpaymentdept207@yahoo.fr

Thanks for your co-operation.
Best Regards,
Mr Godwin Eze
ATM PAYMENT CENTER

Note: Because of impostors, we hereby issue you with our code of conduct, which is (208) so you have to indicate this code when contacting this CARD CENTRE

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