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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: finance.atmcard@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:56:16 -0000
Subject: Attn: Beneficiary





Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.

Federal Bureau Of Investigation.

J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc



Attn: Beneficiary,



This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we

have

thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring

Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors

claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr.

Patrick Aziza, Mr Frank Nweke, Dr. Philip Mogan, none officials of Oceanic

Bank, Zenith Banks, Barr. Derrick Smith, kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of

FedEx, Ibrahim Sule,Larry Christopher, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen, Dr. Philip

Mogan, Puppy Scammers are impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of

Investigation. During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why

you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your

Financial Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance

Payment.



Therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry Of Finance on your

behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by cordinating

your payment intotal USD$1million in an ATM CARD which you can use to

withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a

maximum of $4000 to $5000 United States Dollars daily. You now have the

lawful right to claim your fund in an ATM CARD.



Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation is involved in this transaction,

you have to be rest assured for this is 100% risk free it is our duty to

protect the American Citizens. All I want you to do is to contact the ATM

CARD CENTER via email for their requirements to proceed and procure your

Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost you $250.00 only and note

that your Approval Slip which contains details of the agent who will

process your transaction.



CONTACT INFORMATION

NAME: MR. DANIEL SMITH

MOBILE NUMBER:+234-703-579-3908

EMAIL: finance.atmcard@yahoo.com.hk



Do contact Mr. Daniel Smith of the ATM CARD CENTRE with your details:



FULL NAME:

HOME ADDRESS:

TELL:

CELL:

CURRENT OCCUPATION:

AGE:



So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment

information’s which you'll use in making payment of $250.00 via Western

Union Money Transfer or Money Gram Transfer for the procurement of your

Approval Slip after which the delivery of your ATM CARD will be effected

to your designated home address without any further delay.



We order you get back to this office after you have contacted the ATM

SWIFT CARD CENTER and we do await your response so we can move on with our

Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you.



Thanks and hope to read from you soon.



ROBERT S. MUELLER, III

DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535



Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices

claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advice only

to be in contact with Mr. Daniel Smith of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the

rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and

forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act

upon and commence investigation.

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