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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: oceanic_atm_center97@qatar.io
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 01:08:20 -0500
Subject: Atm Card Award

OCEANIC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC CONGRATULATION, The ATM CARD
paymentcenter,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.
(oceanic_atm_center97@qatar.io) 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 hareby issued you our CODE OF CONDUCT,which is (ATM-900) soyou
have to indicate this when contact us by using it as your subject.complete
the form below and send it to (oceanic_atm_center97@qatar.io) for the processing of your
document and transfer of your ATM CARD to you.

(SEE BELOW)CODE OF CONDUCT ATM-900
NAME IN FULL ...............
DATE OF BIRTH................
AGE................................................
STATUS.............
ADDRESS..............
NATIONALITY.................
COUNTRY....................
OCCUPATION..........................
OFFICE ADDRESS.....................................
MOBILE....() ..................DECLARATION....,Mr/Mrs....Mr........... do
hereby declare that the information given above,is correct to the best of
my knowledge and believe thesame to be true
Sincerely
Dr.James Williams.
DIRECTOR OF ATM PAYMENT

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