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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: "ATM CARD INT" <info@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: atmcardint@admin.in.th
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:00:55 -0600 (CST)
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!

CONGRATULATION!!!
The ATM CARD payment center,OCEANIC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC has been
mandated to issue out an ATM CARD value of {900,000 thousand USD},to
you
which you can use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any
part of
the world.
You are advised to keep this information confidentially away from the
public to avoid fraudulent claim (IMPORTANT) pending of the delivery
of your
ATM CARD to you.
Note that because of impostors,we hareby issued you our CODE OF
CONDUCT,which is (ATM-900) so you have to indecate this when contact
us
by using it as your subject.complete the form below and send it to
EMAIL:(atm@admin.in.th)
(SEE BELOW)
CODE OF CONDUCT.............
NAME IN FULL................
DATE OF BIRTH................
AGE........................
SEX........................
MARITIAL STATUS.............
HOME ADDRESS...............
NATIONALITY.................
COUNTRY.....................
OCCUPATION...........
POSITION...............
OFFICE ADDRESS.............
TEL........................
MOBILE......................
DECLARATION....I,Mr/Mrs................do hereby declare that the
information given above,is correct to the best of my knowledge and
believe thesame to be true.
that you are to contact us with the listed details above within 7
working
days of this notification



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