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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: "INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fcmbcustomeratmservices247@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 02:08:05 +0100
Subject: YOUR PAYMENT VIA ATM DEBIT CARD

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATION
INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT,

ATTENTION:BENEFICIARY
YOUR PAYMENT VIA ATM DEBIT CARD.

The World Bank, working in relationship with First City Monument Bank plc and also Leeds Bank in London has concluded to issue you an ATM master CARD with which you can access your contract /beneficiary amount $15.5 million 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 Twenty Thousand United States Dollars ($20,000.00) per day. So if you like to receive your fund in this way, please let us know by contacting the ATM payment department and also send the following information as listed below:

1. YOUR FULL NAME:
2. YOUR RECEIVING ADDRESS:
3. VALID PHONE NUMBERS:
4. FAX NUMBER:
5. COUNTRY
6. STATE/CITY:
7. ZIP CODE:
8. SEX:
9. PRESENT OCCUPATION:
10. BUSINESS / COMPANY NAME:

The ATM card payment center was mandated to issue out $15.5million as part payment for this fiscal year 2011 to you so bear with us. Also for your information, you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment.

Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (ATM-902) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center by using it as your subject.

We anticipate your total compliance to this message immediately.

Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Jonathan A. D. Long
Tel: +2348095703163
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATION
INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT,
FIRST CITY MONUMENT BANK PLC



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