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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: "REV FR PAUL JOHN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rev_pauljohn0119@mp.tc>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:27:39 +0100
Subject: atm payment

attention:fund beneficiary
 
didn't you received the mail i sent to you? kindly forward your information.for immediate proceed and don't delay.this is to officially inform you that we 
have verified your contract /inheritancefile and found out that why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled the obligations 
given to you in respect of your contract/inheritance payment.
secondly we have been informed that you are still dealing with the none officials in the bank. your entire attempt to secure the release of the fund to you.we wish to advise you that such an illegal act like this has to stop if you wish to receive your payment since we have decided to bring a solution to 
your problem. right now we have arranged your payment through our swift card payment center asia pacific, that is the latest instructionfrommr.president,musa 
yar'adua (gcfr) federal republic of nigeria.and efcc nigeria.
as well the interpol and fbi.
this card center will send you an atm card which you will use to withdraw your money in any atm machine in any part of the world, but the maximum is ten 
thousand united states dollars per day. so if you like to receive your fund do forward us with your information as stated below:
full name......
full address.....
phone and fax....
your age....
sex.....
current occupation....
attach copy of your identification
 
contact person:
 
rev fr paul john
director, atm payment department
email:revpaul.john09@ufo.tc
direct phone: +234 8062 696 500
the atm card payment center has been mandated to issue out 8,300,000.00 usd as part payment for this fiscal of year 2010. also for your information, you 
areadvised to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment.
note that because of impostors/crooks, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (atm/2009-811) so you have to indicate this code when
contacting the above card center director by using it as code of conduct.
best regards,
rev fr paul john.
chief auditor to the president
f.r.n
 

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