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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: "Michael Steve Wales" <integrated.payment.department08@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:38:13 +0100
Subject: ** YOUR ATM PAYMENT**


*The Director of Operations,
International Credit Settlement,
House of Commons UK,
Central Bank of Nigeria.

Attn: Beneficiary,

We have been informed that your outstanding inheritance funds with the
Federal Government are yet to be received due to non-fulfillment of the
legal required obligations as approved in respect of your inheritance.
On this faithful reconciliation, we discovered that you've been dealing with
none officials of the bank and agencies on the attempt to secure the release
of your inheritance funds. We wish to bring to your notice that we are neck
deep to check this gross misconduct by this syndicates who slight down our
dignities to international communities. With the combine effort of the
United Nation Anti-crime commission to alleviate and redeem the image and
past wounds of some foreigners and firms who were defrauded of their money
on the course of trying to receive their payment.

The Federal Government is already compensating some individuals and firms
with substantial evidence that their money was false fully collected from
them. The sanity at present is $100,000 to each of those victims. "This is a
secret" We have decided to bring a solution to your own problem. Right now
we have arranged your payment through our swift card payment center Asia
pacific, which is the test instruction by the new elected president of
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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 Five Hundred Dollars Only per day, so if you will like to
receive your fund this way let us know by contacting the card payment center
and also send the following information please:

1. Your full name
2. Phone and fax number
3. Address were you want them to send the ATM card to (P.O box not
acceptable)
4. Your age and current occupation*

*Michael Steve Wales
Integrated payment department
Email: **atmdepartment@centralbanknig-plc.com*<atmdepartment@centralbanknig-plc.com>
*
The ATM card payment center has been mandated to issue US$8.300,000.00 to
you as part payment for this fiscal year 2008. Also for your information you
have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or
office(s). This is to avoid any further problem in finalizing your payment.
Email me back as soon as you receive this email for further direction in
this regard and update me on any development from the above-mentioned
office.

Note: that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct,
which is (289-A1) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card
center.

(Mrs. David Smith)
Chief auditor to the president
*

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