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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)
• 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.
  • apexbankplcbeninc@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "lotto lotto" <awlotto8@gala.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:10:12 +0100
Subject: DEAR WINNER


DEAR WINNER

This is to notify you that your Email Address attached to a Ticket
Number(106012) has won an Award Sum of (2,000.000.00) Euros (Two Million
Euros).Now we have arranged your payment of Two Million Euros through swift
card payment center, this card center will send your money through ATM CARD
in any ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum is one
thousand, five hundred us dollars per day which is withdrawing 1% of the
money per day.

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn
from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from meanly North America which
Includes the United States, Mexico, Canada and Central Europe, London,
Spain, Africa and Asia,Oceania as part of our international promotions
program which is conducted annually.
We therefore advice every winner in this quarter to listen properly from the
advice from the Delivery agent so that they can discharge the duties
accordingly and expressly.

Simply contact our African Affiliated representative Apex Bank PLC, where
your draw falls with the following Information via email with your name and
contact address: He will guild you on how to claim your winning prize:
Email// apexbankplcbeninc@gmail.com<http://us.mc459.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=apexbankplcbeninc@gmail.com>
DR.MOHAMED BELLO DIRECTOR,
ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT
APEX BANK PLC.
Email// apexbankplcbeninc@gmail.com<http://us.mc459.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=apexbankplcbeninc@gmail.com>

You have to contact
apexbankplcbeninc@gmail.com<http://us.mc459.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=apexbankplcbeninc@gmail.com>With
the following
information below:

# FULL NAME:................................
# SEX:.....................................
# ADDRESS:.................................
# COUNTRY:.................................
# FAX:.....................................
# PHONE NUMBER:............................
# OCCUPATION:..............................
# COMPANY'S NAME:..........................
# AGE:.....................................
# REF NUMBER:..............................

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 THE 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.

BEST REGARDS
MANAGEMENT

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