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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: MR. FRANK SMITH <arthurlange@ymail.com>
Reply-To: interbankplcatmcardcustomercare@umail.net
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 06:07:10 +0200
Subject: PAYMENY VIA USA VISA CARD, RESPOND URGENTLY..

Attention: Beneficiary

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract/inheritance file and found out that why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled the obligations given to you in respect to your contract/inheritance payment.The Atm finance center has secured your funds in ATM cardloaded with your funds and a code to withdraw from the ATM card will be issued to you.The Atm finance center security center will send your ATM card which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world,you are to note that the maximum withdrawal is nine thousand, nine hundred united states dollars per day/its equivalent in any other currency.Please contact the director world bank ATM deplorer assigned to do this in USA,EUROPE AND ASIA and also send the following details below to him.

1.your full name
2.mailing address(p.o box not acceptable)
However,kindly find below the contact
person information Mr. Arthur Lange director world bank Atm deplorer to USA,EUROPE & ASIA E-mail: (interbankplcatmcardcustomercare@umail.net) or (arthurlange@ymail.com)

The world bank finance center has been mandated to issue out a loaded atm card as part payment for this fiscal year 2010. also,you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) to avoid any hitch in receiving your payment.Do not reveal the value of your card to anybody not even to Mr. Arthur Lange for security reasons.Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code tagged to your ATM card for easy identification by Mr. Arthur Lange . your ATM card code is (ATM-018), you have to indicate this code whencontacting the ATM Center personnel by using it as your subject.do not reveal to anybody.You are only required to request from Mr. Andrew Ben to identify your ATM card and prepare it for delivery to your mailing address that you sent to him.

SIGNED,
MR. FRANK SMITH
WORLD BANK SWIFT & ATM PAYMASTER





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