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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "LEO IKE" <leo_ike51@ig.com.br>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:24:08 +0200
Subject: FORWARD THE ABOVE INFORMATIONS TO THE DIRECTOR OK?


Dear Friend,
This is to inform you about my success in transferingyour money into an ATM
master card to curtail the risk of carrying hugeamount of money arround.We
are the peole that coded this amount of moneyin the card and we are going to
tell you how to make use of it.Presentlyi'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 inmoving the cash despite that both of us could
not make it.Now contactATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT and their email addressis(
atmcarddepatment01@yahoo.fr) ask them to send you the sum ofeight hundred
and fifty thousand us dollars ( $850.000.00) in an ATMMASTER CARD which i
kept for your compensation for all the past effortsand attempts to assist me
in this matter.this card centre will send youan ATM card which you will use
to withdraw your money in any ATM machinein any par t of the wor ld, the
maximum is Five Thousand United StateDollars per day. I appreciated
your efforts at that time very much,Sofeel free and get in touched with the
ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT andinstruct them on where to send your total share of
the money to you.Therefore do not hesitate to contact Oceanic Bank Benin ATM
paymentdepartment centre and also re-confirm the following information
aslisted below:
1. Full Name
2. Address were you want them to send theATM card
3. Phone number (private)
4. Your age and currentoccupation
5. Country Name and Code Forward the above inforamation to:
Dr.Frank Christopher,Director, ATM payment department Oceanic Bank
Benin Republic. Direct line:+229-93-06-34-43,
Emails:(atmcarddepatment01@yahoo.fr)
Please do let me knowimmediately you receive it so that we can share the joy
together afterall the sufferness at that time. In the moment,i am very busy
hereinvesting with my new partner.Remember that you are going to pay
areactivation fee,it is for the reactivation of your card against it'sexpiry
before the delivery is made.The reason for the reactivation feeis that the
account has been there for a long time while the governmentwas doing serious
investigations on the right owner of the money beforethis conclusion was
made.
Finally, I have forwarded instructions tothe DEPARTMENT to send the
Confirmable ATM MASTER CARD to you, so feelfree to get in touch with the
DEPARTMENTand they will send the CARD toyou without any delay. DO FAST AND
CONTACT THEM IMMEDIATELY OK?
BestRegards,
Barr.Leo David Owen

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