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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: d_atm1010@live.com
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:38:17 GMT
Subject: HERITED ATM NOTIFICATION




From: Wilaim Boster.
Woodlands Road
Leatherhead Court

This is to officially inform you that we
have verified your ContactInheritance file
and discover thatyou herited a payment through
our swift card Payment center Asia pacific,
the ATM card paymentcenter has been mandated
to issue out Eight Hundred Thousand USD to
you as part payment for this physical Year,
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 One
Thousand,Five Hundred United
state dollars per day. Contact the ATM card
payment department and also send the
Following Information as listed below.

1. FULL NAME

2. CELL NUMBER

3. RESIDENTAIL ADDRESS

4. OCCUPATION

5. SEX

6.AGE.


ATM Card Payment Center
Contact person: Kinsley Dominic
Tell: +2348076662553
Email:d_atm101@live.com

The major computer companies in the world
contributed to this offer with
little contribution,It is pertinent to
inform you that your ATM card and
has been zoned among to be released from our
payment office here in West
Africa,also for your information, you have
to stop any further
communication with any other Person(S) or
office(s) on the internet to
avoid any hitches in receiving. Note that
because of the high level of
impersonator, we hereby issue you ourcode of
conduct Which is (ATM-K1202MXC)You have to
indicate this code when contacting the card
center.



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