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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Stanley Dimkpa" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <harrison273@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:22:56 +0100
Subject: Attachment of ATM Mastercard to an account for accessible withdrawal from your country:

I have a business proposal that could benefit both of us, I'm a Nigerian I live in Nigeria and work in Nigeria. In the international community and the world at large, people believe that most Nigerians are not to be trusted in business ventures, but still in Nigeria there are real business men and women who earn good livelihood and who are working so hard to advance their standard of livelihood.

I'm among those that cannot break promises nor breach business in the name of scam which cannot lead me to the desired height.
My Name is Stanley Dimkpa I, m a professional Banker, I, m the head of Private Banking with Zenith Bank of Nigeria. The Federal Government of Nigeria is working very hard to curb the menace of looting Government funds by politicians and public office holders.

Last year 2011 a well known politician in Nigeria moved huge amount of funds above $2Million Dollars into the Private domiciliary Bank account in disguise through the Help of Our Late Branch Manager. The politician died two weeks ago and this fund cannot be transferred by bank to bank wire transfer due to the laws protecting international KTT remittance, but we can draw out fund through ATM MasterCard without any stress. This can only be handled by foreigners.
Presently, I'm the acting General Manager and I need the assistance of a foreigner who can work with me to move this funds gradually out from the domiciliary account through our advanced ATM MasterCard system.

All I require is your co-operation in full as I will edit the information used in creating the account and match it with your details. Then i will draft an application and send to you, which you will send to the bank requesting an ATM MasterCard be configured to your account. Once you send this application to the bank as I will direct you, my attention will be drawn to it for further advice and approval. Then I will approve it and endorse the account to be configured with an ATM MasterCard, which will give you access to withdraw fund from any ATM Machine Worldwide. Once I edit the account I will disable the alert systems and put another telephone number to receive alert upon making withdrawal.
The bank charges that will be involved in this transaction will be taken care of by me. But the foreign transmittal permission and Bank endorsement fees with the courier charges will be handled by you once the ATM card is ready because the payment receipt will be needed for acknowledgment purposes.
If you are ready to partner with me in this venture on advancing our financial status. Kindly forward the following details:

With this details I will edit the account and make sure it match with your information as will be written on the ATM MasterCard. Also each time you draw fund from the account of make huge online transfer from that account to another account alert will come to my phone.
On each amount drawn, you will take 50% and send 50% into an account I will provide to you as we proceed.
This is simple and will not lead us into any form of trouble. Without trust we cannot achieve any success.

Regards

Stanley Dimkpa

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