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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)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348077956683 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • ah_maman@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ah_maman@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:18:44 +0300
Subject: The Office of Federal Ministry of Finance.



From: The Office of Federal Ministry of Finance.

Honorable Minister of Finance.

Abuja, Nigeria.

Website: www.fmf.gov.ng

Service Email: ah_maman@hotmail.com

Office Number: +234-8077- 956683


Re: Your Payment Notification.


Attention: Beneficiary,


Re: your payment notification (ATM Mode of Payment)


This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract
inheritance file presently on my desk, and we found out that you have
not received your payment due to lack of co-operation and not
fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your
contract/inheritance and lottery payment through your payment bank.


Secondly, you are hereby advice to stop dealing with them and the
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 neither
through contract payment, inheritance (next of kin) and lottery
payment, involve isE.g (Nigeria, Africa, Europe and London, U.K).
After the board meeting held at our headquarters with the new
honorable minister of finance; Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman, we have resolved
in finding a solution to your problem, and as you may know, we have
arranged your payment through our ATM Swift Card payment center, which
is then instruction given by our minister of finance.


This payment center through ministry of finance will send you an ATM
card which you will use to withdraw your (fund)money in an ATM machine
in any part of the world, but the maximum is ($15,000.00) five
thousand US Dollars per transaction. So, if you like to receive your
fund thisway,$15,000 USD for you to withdraw for a day and each
transaction is $3,000 USD minimum which you have to withdraw
$15,000UDS for one working day also be informed that the total amount
in the Swift ATM card is $10 million USD.


(1) Your full name:......................

(2) Your address where you want the paymentcenter to send your ATM

card through UPS Service:..............

(3) Phone and fax number:................

(4) Age and Occupation:..................

(5) Your nearest international air port in your city of

residence:...............

(6) Mode of payment: ATM card.


We shall be expecting to receive your informations, you have to stop
any further communication with anybody or office and not to send that
thousands of dollar to them because we are investigating on your
transaction through the Unite State FBI and Interpol. On this regards,
do not hesitate to contact me for more details and direction, and also
please do update me with any new development and send all the email
you have receive so far to my office soon and also payment that you
have made to enable us locate them.


Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of
conduct, which is (ATM-811) so you have to indicate this code when
contacting the card center byusing it as your subject.

We look forward to serving you better and you can call me with my
Direct Office Number +234-8077- 956683 and reply to this email address
only: service email: AH_MAMAN@HOTMAIL.COM, so that your ATM CARD can
be issue to you.


Thanks for your co-operation and Waiting to hear from you soonest.


We look forward to serving you better.


Best regards,


Dr. Ahmadu Usman, (OON)

Permanent Secretary to Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen

honorable minister of finance.

Website: www.fmf.gov.ng

Email: AH_MAMAN@HOTMAIL.COM

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