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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: "McCune, Stacie" <Stacie.McCune@Hardin.kyschools.us>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:09:41 -0400
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT VIA ATM CARD


NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT VIA ATM CARD

Contant me with this addrres below
Email:usman209_ng@live.com

This is to officially inform you that we have verified
your contract file presently on my desk, and I found
out that you have not received your payment due to
your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the
obligations giving to you in respect to your contract
payment.Secondly,you are hereby advised to stop
dealing with some 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.After the Board of
director's meeting held in Abuja,we have resolved
infinding a solution to your problem.We have arranged
your payment throughour SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in
Europe,America,Africa and Asia
Pacific,This is part of an ion/mandate passed by the
Senate in respect to overseas contract payment and
debt re-scheduling.

Contant me with this addrres below
Email:usman209_ng@live.com


And also the Nigerian Government is using this mean to
rewards all the citizens of the United states and all
part of Europe including Asia,Australia, South
America, Antarctica e.t.c and all those who have lost
their funds in either scam, or an uncompleted
business, or otherwise,You should know that if you are
interested to receive your ATM card which will be
credited with $5,000,000.00 united states dollars
before it is been sent to you direct to your doorstep
through the FedEx courier service, you will have to
respond to me with your full informations, After your
response you will be directed to the Fedex shipping
courier representative whose name is Mr Edward Mavis.
He will send you your ATM CARD which you will use to
withdraw your money via ATM MACHINE in any part of the
world, and the maximum daily limit is Fifteen Thousand
United States dollars($15,000.00). And also note that
the Nigerian Government has taken care of the shipping
fee of your ATM card,So if Mr Edward is requesting for
another shipping fee, You will have to report him to
me immediately. When you receive your ATM card, you
have to alert me so that we can give you process of
how to activate and make use of.

If you like to receive your fund this way, Kindly
contact me with the following informations below.

First Name:............................................
Middle Name:.....................................
Last Name:................................
Addrress Line .....................................
Address Line
2.........................................
City....................................
State.............................Zip............
Home Phone..........................................
Cell Phone.................................
Occupation.........................................
Gender.............Marital.......................
Status............................Age............
Nation of Origin...........................

This message is supported by the Nigerian Government,
After you might have started making use of your ATM
card, you can reward my firm one way or the other you
knows best.

Thanks for your co-operation.
Respectively

Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen
Director (CBN, IRD, and ATM)
Dept. International Remittance
Swift Card Payment Center
Minister, Federal Ministry Of Finance.


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