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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: "Mrs.Pamela Johnson Esq" <mrs.angelagilton@sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: atmcardtdept@movmail.com
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:39:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION



RE: YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

From: Mrs. Pamela Johnson Esq.

Executive Payment Officer (UN)

UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION.







Attention: Beneficiary





This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract /

inheritance file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not

received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the

obligations giving to you in respect to your contract / inheritance payment.



Secondly, you are hereby advised to stop dealing with some

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. After the board meeting held at our headquarters, we

have resolved in finding a solution to your problem, and as you may know, we

have arranged your fund $4.9 milliom through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in

Europe, America and Asia Pacific, which is the instruction given by our

president, YAYI BONI (GCN) Of Republic of Benin.





This Bank ATM card centre will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to

withdraw your money in an ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, but

the maximum

is ($5,000.00) Five Thousand or less than Us Dollars per day. So, if

you like to

receive your fund this way, please do let us know by forwarding the below

details and furnish them with the below info.



Full names: __

Address:____

Country:____

Zip Code:___

Sex: ___

Age: __

Marital status: ____

Occupation/Position: ___

Scann copy of any of your identification:_

Tel/House /private: __

I Mr/Mrs._______

forwarding th e above details to





DR. JIM RODWELL THE DIRECTOR DIAMOND BANK BENIN CARD PAYMENT CENTRE

EMAIL:atmcardtdept@movmail.com

phone +229974197822





Remember Your Total Fund to be received is US $4.900,000.00 Instead of losing

your fund, please indicate to the Card Centre the total sum you are expecting

and for your information you have stop any further communication with

anybody or

office. On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me for more details and

direction, and also please do update me with any new development.





Note: Because of impostors, we hereby issue you with our code of

conduct, which

are (X209) so you have to indicate this code when contacting this CARD CENTER

Thanks for your co-operation.



Regards,

From: Mrs. Pamela Johnson Esq.

Executive Payment Officer (UN)

United Nation Of Benin Republic.

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