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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: gandi raytar <gena@013net.net>
Reply-To: officeministry221@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:45:31 +0100
Subject: ATM PAYMENT








From: The Office of Federal Ministry of Finance.
Honorable Minister of Finance.
Abuja, Nigeria.
Website: www.fmf.gov.ng
Service Email:officeministry221@gmail.com
Office Number: +234-7082980347
Re: Your Payment Notification.

Attention: Beneficiary,

your payment notification (ATM Mode of Payment)
This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract
Inheritance file presently on my desk, and we found out that you have not
received your payment due to lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the
obligations giving to you in respect to your contract/inheritance and
lottery payment through your payment bank.Secondly, you are hereby advice to
stop dealing with them and the 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 neither through contract payment, inheritance (next of kin) and
lottery payment, involve is E.g (Nigeria, Africa, Europe and London, U.K).
After the board meeting held at our headquarters with the new honorable
minister of finance;Dr.Mansur Murtah , we have resolved in finding a
solution to your problem,and as you may know, we have arranged your payment
through our ATM Swift Card payment center, which is then instruction given
by our minister of finance.

This payment center through ministry of finance will send you an ATM card
which you will use to withdraw your (fund)money in an ATM machine in any
part of the World, but the maximum is ($15,000.00) five thousand US Dollars
per Transaction.

So if you like to receive your fund this way,$15,000 Usd for you to withdraw
for a day and each transaction is $3,000 USD minimum which you have to
withdraw $15,000 UDS for one working day also be informed that the total
amount in the Swift ATM card is $10 million USD.

(1) Your full name Wayne Allen Gleim
(2) Your address where you want the payment center to send your ATM
Card through UPS Service 472 South Richardson Avenue Columbus, OHIO
43204-3118
(3) Phone and fax number Phone: 614-276-5330 NO FAX Number
(4) Age and Occupation 57 years old, Disabled (Systems Development Engineer)
(5) Your nearest international airport in your city of
Residence: Columbus OHIO international Airport Columbus, OHIO
(6) Mode of payment: ATM card. ATM card fine!

We shall be expecting to receive your information, you have to stop any
Further communication with anybody or office and not to send that thousands
of dollar to them because we are investigating on your transaction through
the Unite State FBI and Interpol. On this regards, do not hesitate to
contact me for more details and direction, and also please do update me with
any new development and send all the email you have receive so far to my
office soon and also payment that you have made to enable us locate them.

Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct,
which is (ATM-811) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the
card center by using it as your subject.

We look forward to serving you better and you can call me with my Direct
Office Number +234-7082980347

Reply to this email address only: service
email:officeministry1973@yahoo.co.uk,so that your ATM CARD can be issue to
you.

Thanks for your co-operation and Waiting to hear from you soonest.
We look forward to serving you better.

Best regards,

Mr.Aderemi Babalola, (OON)
Permanent Secretary.Dr.Mansur Murtah
honorable minister of finance,
Website: www.fmf.gov.ng

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