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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: "OCEANIC BANK PLC" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <atmoceanicplc@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:23:48 -0800
Subject: ATM-900


ATTENTION;
OCEANIC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC. CONGRATULATION! The ATM CARD payment
center,OCEANIC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC has been mandated to issue out an
ATM CARD value of {$900,000 USD},to you, which you can use to withdraw your money
in any ATM machine in any part of the world. You are advised to keep this
information confidentially away from the public to avoid fraudulent claim (IMPORTANT)
pending of the delivery of your ATM CARD to you. Note that because of
impostors,we hereby issued you our CODE OF CONDUCT,which is (ATM-900) so you
have to indicate this when contact us by using it as your subject.complete
the form below and send it to (atmoceanicplc@mail.com) for the processing of your
document and transfer of your ATM MASTER CARD to your home address you are to
send your Details. CODE OF CONDUCT:_____________ NAME IN
FULL:_____________ DATE
OF BIRTH:_____________ AGE:_____________
SEX:_____________ MARITAL STATUS:_____________ HOME ADDRESS:_____________
NATIONALITY:_____________
COUNTRY:_____________ OCCUPATION:_____________ POSITION:_____________ OFFICE
ADDRESS:_____________ TEL:_____________
MOBILE:_____________ DECLARATION....I,Mr/Mrs:_____________ do hereby declare
that the information given above,is correct to the best of my knowledge and believe the same to be true.

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