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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: Gail Marcinkiewicz <michaelokoh40@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: skyebanquebenin@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:13:46 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: CONTACT THE SKYE BANK FOR YOUR CARD FROM FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION




FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Attn:Honorable Beneficiary.

We the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI Honolulu) United States Of America have discovered through our intelligent monitoring network that you have a transaction going on as either inheritance payment,Lottery or contract payment in a tone of Millions of United States Dollars which have been approved but have not been settled.

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract /inheritance file after close monitoring and found out why you have not received your payment,both on your part and on the part of your debtors.

Secondly, we have been informed that you are still dealing with the non officials in the bank who are attempting to secure the release of your fund to you. We wish to advise you that this is illegal and you should stop further communication with them forthwith because such an illegal act like this can lead to cancellation of your fund.

we have been having so many complains from people who have been scammed around the world hence, after concluding in a meeting with members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), we came to a conclusion that every payment will be made through the SKYE BANK OF BENIN (SKYB). We also concluded on the use of ELECTRONIC ATM PAYMENT SYSTEM as the only direct means to pay all beneficiaries.

By this method, your funds will be loaded in one BATCHES into an ATM card,and sent to you, from this card you can withdraw a maximum of us$5,000 per day from any ATM machine worldwide, BUT from the financial houses there is no limit.

So if you would like to receive your funds in this way please send your
following information to the paying bank.

(1)Your Full Name:
(2)Your Complete Address
(3)Name of City of Residence:
(4)Direct Telephone Number:
(5)Mobile Number:
(6)Age:______Sex:______Occupation:
(7)Working Identity Card/Int'l Passport:

Below are the contact details of the PAYING BANK(SKYE BANK OF BENIN PLC.) Republic Of BENIN to whom you will send your information for the processing of the ATM card as soon as possible:

CONTACT PERSON: Mr.Hernandez Robinson,
HEAD OF OPERATIONS,ATM CARD PAYMENT SYSTEM
DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMISSION, SKYE BANK OF BENIN.(SKYB)
E-mail: skyebanquebenin@hotmail.com
TEL:0022996000232
MOBILE :00229-99198210

The DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMISSION has been mandated to issue out your payment through Skye Bank (Authorized Bank). For your information, you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) who claim that to be established agents using it to defraud innocent people worldwide.This is to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment.

Faithfully Yours,
Gail Marcinkiewicz
FBI spokeswoman

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