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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. Tom Cleark" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.tomcleark@rocketmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:13:19 +0800
Subject: ATM CARD PAYMENT

OFFICE OF THE SENATE HOUSE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT
(RESOLUTION PANEL ON CONTRACT PAYMENT)
IKOYI-LAGOS NIGERIA 14th Floor 51/55 Broad Street ,
Dear Beneficiary.
Congratulations as we bring to your notice from the Office of the senate house. You have been chosen by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of this year's promotion of cash grant/Donation.
This is in collaboration of her 30th anniversary celebration, We are giving out a yearly donation of the ATM Card Value of USD($850,000.00) Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand UNITED STATE DOLLARS to 14 lucky recipients, as our anniversary promo. The promo is in conjunction with the W.H.O, UN and the EU in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament.
The Act of the cash grant/Donation only collected email addresses of final recipient from different countries in the world: united state, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Europe, etc. with an electronic balloting system, without the recipient applying. Finally, you emerged one of our lucky beneficiary.
You are to fill out the below information and send it to the PaymentRemittance Office Via the provided contact email address below:
Full Name:...................... ....
Age:..............
Sex:.............
Residential Address:.................
State:.................
Occupation:.................. .
Country:..............
Telephone:........
Fax Number:...........
Zip Code.............
Next Of Kins.........
Winning Batch No:(W-342-8876,U-510-82).
Warning!!!: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appear to be using The ATM GRANT/AID addresses, but are not from The ATM GRANT/AID Board house, So beware!!!.
Once again congratulations...
(Payment Remittance Contact)
Rev. Mr. Tom Cleark
EMAIL ADDRESS:mr.tomcleark@rocketmail.com

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