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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. Jodin Nelson." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johnokeke@w.cn>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:52:01 -0700
Subject: CONTACT THE ATM DEPARTMENT NOW:YOUR CODE IS (ATM-0411-C)?

Greetings to you & your Family.

I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirm able bank
Draft of $1.500,000.00 United States Dollars But I did not hear from you
since that time,then i went and deposited the $1.500,000.00 United States
Dollars, draft/cheque in the bank. We have arranged your payment through
swift card payment center Asia pacific, 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 Five Thousand, Five Hundred
United States Dollars Per-Day.

Kindly contact the below person who is in position to release your ATM
Payment Card and Send your information which they will use to send the
card to you.

1) Your full name
2)Your home address were you them to send the ATM Card
3)Current occupation
4)Age
5)Telephone/mobile number

Kindly contact the below person who is in position to release your ATM
card.
Directors name is (Dr.John Okeke),
ATM Payment Department FINANCIAL BANK PLC (F B P)
Email: (johnokeke@w.cn)

I have paid for the processing and delivery charges.the only money that
your are going to pay to them is only $98 dollars which they will use
to obtain the affidavit of ownership from the federal high court of Benin
Republic.

this is the code of conduct which is(ATM-0411-C) so you have to indicate
this code when contacting the ATM DEPT CENTER IN FINANCIAL BANK by using
it as your subject. Try to contact them as soon as possible to quicken the
processing of your card before your Bank draft gets expired.

You should also Let me know as soon as you receive it from Bank ok.


Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Jodin Nelson.

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