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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:
  • "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)
  • "inheritance funds" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• 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.accessbankplc01@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Susan Davison" <kaysusanmail@bigmir.net>
Reply-To: atmpayment.accessbankplc01@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 02:27:08 -0700
Subject: ATM Receiver are wanted by Access Bank.!!


>From Mrs. Susan Davison
Add: access bank London.
PO Box 1010
8 CANADA SQUARE LONDON, E14 5HQ L70 1NL United Kingdom
Ref: UK/6648D/09
Batch: 0DN#0/07/MK881
30-05-2008



Office of the director of operations international
credit settlement:



Attention beneficiary:



This is to officially inform you that we have verified your lottery
winning /inheritance file and found out why you have not received your
payment is because you have not fulfilled the obligations given to you in
respect of your winning / inheritance payment.

Secondly we have been informed that you are still dealing with the
non-officials of the lottery organization, all in your attempt to secure the
release of your winnings. We wish to advice you that such an illegal act
like this has to stop if you wish to receive your payment, since we have
decided to bring a solution to the problem. Right now we have arranged your
payment through our swift card payment center Asia pacific that is the
latest instruction by the new British Prime Minister Gordon brown.



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
two thousand dollars per day, so if you like to receive your fund this way
please let us know by contacting the card payment center and also send the
following information:


Full name:
Age:
Marital status:
occupation:
country/city:
Tell/fax numbers:



Current residential address where you need to receive your package:


Contact person: Edward hills,

integrated payment department, 6th floor, chamomiles court,

chamomiles street London e c3a 7pp UK

Email: Atmpayment.accessbankplc01@gmail.com



the ATM card payment center has been mandated to issue out $12.5 Million
000(United State dollar) as the winning for the world 2008 Legitimate
inheritance Funds. Also for your information you have to stop any further
communication with any other person(s) or office(s). This is to avoid any
hitches in finalizing your payment.



Email back as soon as you receive this important message for further
direction in this regards and also updates me on any development from the
above-mentioned office. Note: that because of impostors, we hereby issued
you our code of conduct, which is (699) so you have to indicate this code
when contacting the card center and that code is for you to know your
account balance with the bank.



Kind regards
Mrs. Susan Davison
ATM card payment Dep't

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