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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 Payment Office <officett@johnnnymails.com>
Reply-To: atmpaymentinfo112@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:01:30 -0800 (PST)
Subject: ATM Payment Notification !!


ATM Payment Office,

Office

of the chief Auditor,

International

Credit Settlement

REF:TBT-01-2010

AGOA

Implementation

Instructions

TBT-02-038





Attention

Beneficiary:



It
is our pleasure to inform you that ATM Card Number;5299751627438200 has
been approved and upgraded into a worldwide accessible ATM Master Card
in your favor and we have been instructed by our issuing bank for
further release to you as the beneficiary. Meanwhile, your Secret Pin
Number is 5131. The ATM Card Value is $10.5 million USD Only.



You
are advised that a maximum withdrawal value of US$5,000.00 is permitted
daily and we are duly inter-switched as you can make withdrawal in any
location of the ATM payment Center of your choice nearest to you. We
have also concluded delivery arrangement with our accredited Courier
Agents for onward delivery of the ATM Card to your door step without any
further delay. In view of this development, you are required to forward
the below contact information where the ATM card will be delivered to
you: 1.Full name, 2.phone and fax #, 3.Age, 3.Gender and your
Address(p.o box not acceptable).



Note

that we have already paid for the Insurance Charges but we are not
allowed to pay for the delivery Fee because we don't know when you will
be contacting them, All you need to do is to contact this office with
your contact information's as we stated above for delivery without
delay.



Kindly

advice this Credit Settlement office of your preferred time of delivery
so that we can inform the courier Agents to Treat as very urgent,We
sincerely apologized for all the inconveniences you might have gone
through in the past trying to revceiv your money.



Call/e-mail

us immediately you receive this message on +233 542-873-404;E-mail:
[intercreditsettlement-atmdepatment@live.com]



Congratulations,



Rev,

Dr. William Coker.

Head

International Banking Division

24/7

Banking Administrative Service.


 



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