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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:
  • "atm payment department" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • atmpayment_department_2007@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: williams45@freenet.de
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:17:02 +0100
Subject: HELLO DEAR,


HELLO DEAR,
NOW WE HAVE ARRANGED YOUR PAYMENT OF ( $1.5M USD)UNITED
STATES DOLLARS THROUGH SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTER ASIA PACIFIC, 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
ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS PER DAY.SO IF YOU LIKE
TO RECEIVE YOUR FUND IN THIS WAY,PLEASE LET ME KNOW BY CONTACTING
FINANCIAL BANK ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT AND ALSO SEND THE FOLLOWING
INFORMATION AS LISTED BELOW.

1.FULL
NAME............................
2.ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND
THE ATM CARD..........................
3.MOBILE PHONE
NUMBER....................................................
4.FAX
PHONE........................
5YOUR AGE AND CURRENT
OCCUPATION.........................................
6.ATTACH COPY OF
YOUR IDENTIFICATION......................................
HOWEVER,KINDLY
CONTACT THE BELOW PERSON WHO IS IN POSSITION TO RELEASE YOUR ATM PAYMENT
CARD.
BAR.DAN ATAGA DIRECTOR GENERAL,

ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT
EMAIL:
atmpayment_department_2007@yahoo.fr
THE ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER HAS BEEN
MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT YOUR PAYMENT AND YOU HAVE TO STOP ANY FURTHER
COMMINUCATION WITH ANY OTHER PERSON(S) OR OFFICE(s) TO AVOID ANY HITCHES
IN RECEIVING YOUR PAYMENT.NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF IMPOSTORS, WE HEREBY
ISSUED YOU OUR CODE OF CONDUCT, WHICH IS (ATM-0411) SO YOU HAVE TO
INDICATE THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE CARD CENTER BY USING IT AS YOUR
SUBJECT.
REGARDS
MR.WILLAMS TONY

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