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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: "Mr,Johnson Bello," <johnson.bello21@gmail.com>
Reply-To: bk-of-african@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 04:51:12 +1200 (NZST)
Subject: CONTACT ATM PAYMENMT CENTER FOR YOUR ATM CARD NOW


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ATTENTION BENEFICIARY:

Greetings to you & your Family. I have
been waiting for you since to
contact me for your Confirmable bank Draft of
$3.700,000.00 United States
Dollars But I did not hear from you since that
timei we find out that your
BankDraft is about to Expire and the Bank helped
me to Cash the fund then
i went and deposited the $3,700,000.00.Usd, Three
Million Seven Hundred
United States Dollars, Here is necessary arrangement i
made for delivery
you check to you, draft/cheque in the bank.

This is
to notify you that We have arranged your payment through swift Atm
Master
Card payment center Asia pacific, 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 $7000,usd Seven Thousand United
States Dollars
Per-Day.Kindly contact the below person who is in position
to release your
ATM Payment Card and Send your information which they will
use to send the
card to you.

Please fill the Application for Claim your card and send to
Oceanic Bank
Plc to enable them release the card to you.

1.YOUR FULL
NAME:=======
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS:===
3.YOUR PHONE:====== ====
4.YOUR
COUNTRY:========
5.YOUR OCCUPATION:=====
6.YOUR
AGE:=============
ATTACH COPY OF YOUR ID:==

However, kindly contact
the below person who is in position to release
your atm
card.

Directors name is (DR JOHN KOFFI).
ATM Payment
Department
BANK OF AFRICA PLC (B.O.A)
DIRECTOR DR JOHN KOFFI
Email: (
bk-of-african@hotmail.com )
TELE
PHONE: +229 67 021 176

I have finalize the arrangement with them and the
only money that your are
going to pay to them is only $148,Usd which they
will use to obtain the
affidavit of ownership from the federal high court of
Benin Republic. this
is the code of cod of conduct which is(ATM-0411) so you
have to indicate
this code when contacting the ATM DEPT CENTER IN BANK OF
AFRICA PLC by
using it as your subject.

Try to contact them as soon as
possible to quicken the processing of your
card before your draft gets
expired. You should also Let me know as soon
as you receive it from bank ok.
Yours Faithfully, Thank May the unfailing
grace and power of the most God
keep and guide you

Remean Bless,
Mr,Johnson Bello,
CONTACT ATM
PAYMENMT CENTER FOR YOUR ATM CARD NOW

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