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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: ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT FINANCIAL BANK <interl.departm2@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:06:48 +0100
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?RE8gV0UgUEFZIFRIRU0/4oCP?=

ATTENTION Please,

I am Mr Williams Peter & Wilfred Prosper, General manager to the ATM
Payment Department. The attached picture was taken in my office where i was
serving verification documents to the White men Mr Gabriel Evans and Mr
Alan Mills who stormed my office in bank of the Black Gentleman (on white
African attire). the black man Mr Fred Johnson claimed to be your
representative and the supervisory Engineer that supervised and certified
your ATM CARD execution that was shifted from the previous Paying Institute
to the ATM Payment department (OUR DEPARTMENT ) because of their inability
to have paid it at the agreed time.

They said that you were dead and before your death, you appointed them as
the next of kin to your contract/inherited fund presently under our
custody these two whitemen and the black gentleman quickly applied that
your Inherited fund should be presented to them at the spot.

The Official responsible for the presentation of consignment quickly
granted approvals to their application and packaged the fund for them to go
with it . When the Atm Payment Department Debit Note was submitted to my
desk for final Approvals before forwarding it to them for endoresment, I
noticed that there are discrepancies as there was no evidence of
authorisation letter from you for the change of beneficiary. I urgently
summoned The Official responsible for the presentation of the ATM Card and
every documents and directed him to stop the movement of the funds and at
the same time placed a stop order instruction on the funds pending when
your views and comments are received with regards to this matter.

Please study the attached photograph and call me urgently for your comments
which will be highly appreciated, but we will not hesitate to continue the
payment transmission to them if no response comes from you. and you are
advice to send the requested charges of $42 Dollarstoday so that we can
obtain the affidevit of onwership on your behalf.we can send you your
Atm-Card as soon as possible, we want you to know that our bank is willing
to help you at this point only as soon as you can comply by today and i
promise that your Atm card will be at your door step by today without any
further delay again. Please you are advice to comply as soon as possible so
that you can get your Atm card before today runs out.

I want you to know that there is no tim to waist you have to understand and
send the requested fee of $42 Dollars to obtain the affidevit of onwership
without any delay so that your Atm card will be at your Door step within
today. I want to give you your PIN number: 0411 when you are sending the
information to pickup the money, you are advice to send the PIN number:
0411, with your home address were you want to receive your Atm card and
direct telephone number.

please send the money with the below information via western union only
with the below information:

Senders Name-----
Recivers name----JONA UZOMA SIMPLE
Destination country --- Benin Republic
City and state -- Cotonou
Zip code --- +229
Question:----Who is our savior?
Answer:---The Lord Jesus.
Amount: $42 Dollars
MTCN--------

As soon as you send the money today, please you have to call me or you
email me the MTCN, immediately as your silence will be a clear indication
that you authorised them to effect the above changes .

SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION :

1. FULL NAME
2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
3. YOUR ADDRESS
4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION
5. A COPY OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION

Please I will be waiting for your reply now so that we can finalize every
things by today.without you dont send this fee to provide you the Affidavit
of Ownership Certificate for the releasement of your package today, you may
loose your Atm card.

Waiting to hear from you soon.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr Williams Peter & Wilfred Prosper
ATM Security and Fraud department
African International Bank of Settlement

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