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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: atmmalaysiaprogram1@live.com.my
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:30:43 +0800 (CST)
Subject: XMASS ATM NOTIFICATION





Dear Malaysia Promo Winner,

This is to notify the user of this email, that this user has just won a third place prize in this year ATM MALAYSIA PROGRAM Card Promotion, your Email address came out third position in this year 2009 ATM Card Promotion which was held in MALAYSIA. Out of the millions of Emails addresses worldwide your address came third, All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base. So the third prize goes along with $750,000 USD (Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand US Dollars) in an ATM Card.

So to whom ever is operating this e-mail id in which this Winning notification has been forwarded to should have to act fast in redeeming his or her prize as soon as he or she receives this mail, so all you have to do is to contact our 2009 Program lottery Pay manager through this mail id-[atmmalaysiaprogram1@live.com.my]

They are to highlight you on immediate step you have to take, so as to redeem your price
Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the down left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number and occupation to help locate your file easily. For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Forward Ref: 475061725
Batch: 7056490902/188
Winning No: 60.84.27.17.36

Congratulations
Do not contact us back for confidentiality and security reasons on your winning claims; contact our above email address (atmmalaysiaprogram1@live.com.my) for urgent claims of your lottery award winning fund.

Kindly Contact Claims Department Director:Dr Razak Nazri
Claims Department Director E-mail:atmmalaysiaprogram1@live.com.my
Call Department Officer for enquiries :+60-16-2950-904
Claims Department Director Office Address:Floor C-20-5 Jalan Banyan 800 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Regards,
ATM MALAYSIA HELP CENTRE
MALAYSIA



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