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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:
  • "atm payment department" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • "swift card payment center" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • "card center will send you an atm card" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • oceanic_bankplc20028@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:42:57 +0100
Subject: CONTACT THE OCEANIC BANK PLC NOW


Greetings to you & your Family.=20
=C2=A0
I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable bank=
Draft of $1,2,000.00=C2=A0 United States Dollars But I did not hear from=
you since that time,then i went and deposited the $1,2,000.00 United Sta=
tes Dollars, draft/cheque in the bank.=20
=C2=A0
We have arranged your payment through swift card payment center Asia paci=
fic, this card center will send you an atm card which you will use to wit=
hdraw your money in any atm machine in any part of the world, but the max=
imum is One Thousand, Five Hundred United States Dollars Per-Day. Kindly =
contact the below person who is in possition to release your ATM=20
Payment Card and Send your information which they will use to send the ca=
rd to you.=20
=C2=A0
1) Your full name..................=20
2)Your home address were you want=C2=A0 them to send the atmcard.. ......=
..=20
3)Current occupation.... ..................=20
4)Age.............. Your ID Card..................
5)Your current home telephone number/mobile phone number..........=20
However, kindly contact the below person who is in position to release yo=
ur atm card.=20
Directors name is (DR.David Toms),=20
ATM Payment Department OCEANIC BANK PLC (O B P)=C2=A0=20
Email: ( oceanic_bankplc20028@yahoo.fr )=20
=C2=A0=20
I have paid for the processing and delivery charges.the only money that y=
our are going to pay to them is only $75 dollars which they will use to o=
pen an account on your name here in there bank and credit your fund into =
your atm card ok. this is the code of cond of conduct which is(ATM0411) s=
o you have to indicate this code when contacting the ATM DEPT CENTER IN O=
CEANIC BANK by=20
using it as your subject.=20
=C2=A0Oceanic=20
Try to contact them as soon as possible to quicken the processing of your=
card before your draft gets expired.=20
=C2=A0
You should also Let me know as soon as you receive it from bank ok.=20
=C2=A0Yours Faithfully,=20
=C2=A0Mr, Johnson Bello.

=C2=A0

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