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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: "Dr. Ndubuisi Eze" <ch.rg03@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: 7167000@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:40:39 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: Please read




Respective,

Please read this message carefully. This is to notify you that your over
due contract/inheritance claim fund part payment of US$1,800,000.00 as
approved by the Federal Ministry of Finance and funded by the Central Bank
has been released for payment and loaded into an ATM card for your use
till further payments will be made to you from our offshore account abroad
later next year.

To activate your ATM Card, you need to go to any ATM terminal that has
"MULTI EXPRESSO" logo. Put the card to ATM and press your PIN. And done!
Also, when you get a letter containing your ATM Card PIN number, please
check as there is a 16-digit reference number that is valid for 90 days in
that letter. You can use that 16-digit reference number to change your ATM
Card PIN.

Here below is the information of a shipment of such nature as yours which
you can log on to http://www.ups.com and track the shipment with Tracking
number 1Z73257A0473182415 of an ATM CARD that was sent out by this office
and delivered some weeks ago to the owner. Your brochure information is as
follows:

Initial pin: 8376
ATM pin: 488

Your ATM card is ready and available to be delivered to you. Here are the
details of your package awaiting dispatch. As soon as we get your payment
information, your package will be dispatched immediately. Your
identification number is MMNG/CXS/4476, while your package color is BROWN.
Here is a breakdown of the charges to be met:

COURIER CHARGES..............:US$45.00
CUSTOM DUTIES................:US$20.5
ADMINISTRATIVE CHARGES.......:US$30.00
TOTAL AMOUNT TO SEND.........:US$95.5

By normal calculations on the delivery charges, you are supposed to be
sending to this office, the sum of US$95.5, but we prefer that you send
US$95 to give it a whole number as the $0.5 is insignificant.

You are to make this payment via WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER in the name
of our accounts officer and forward payment details and also attach the
payment slip to this office via email which must include the following:

Receiver’s name:...........Nwagu Stephen
Receiver’s address:........Lagos Nigeria
Test question..............Green or white.
Test answer................Green

Name of sender:............your own name
Address of sender:.........your own address
Amount sent:.................UD$95.00 dollars
Control number :..........(M.T.C.N)

In receipt of your payment, we will ship your ATM card to you and also
send to you via e-mail attachment the dispatch delivery receipt with the
tracking number that will enable you to track it online to verify when
your ATM card will arrive to your designated address as you have forwarded
to us

Lastly, you can verify by tracking through http://www.ups.com of our
American beneficiaries that have received their own ATM cards sometimes
back. You can track them to verify by yourself as to clarify you properly.
Below are the tracking numbers.

1Z73257A0473182415

Treat very urgently as we also remind you again that your ATM card is
ready and we have very little time to dispatch your ATM card to you.
Please confirm the receipt of this mail and get back to this office
accordingly. To be sure your ATM package will get to you this month as
stated; here are dispatches verifications of people that have been paid by
this office in time past also. You can track the package history online to
see that I am diligent on my duties and I have never disappointed nor
failed since I took over the helm of affairs.

You can also track this package history online also to know that your own
case can not be different from theirs since I started heading this office.
I have ship and delivered packages to our government contract executors
and fund beneficiaries and nobody ever complained. So, as soon as you send
in your balance of US$95 as instructed in my email, I will send you your
tracker number and date of delivery. Please call to confirm your ATM card.

Best regards,
Dr. Ndubuisi Eze
Hot-line: +2347051546935

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