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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. Victor Adams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <urgent.upsservice@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 11:27:44 +0530
Subject: YOUR REF:CLAIMS/ATM/203

 
Dear Beneficiary:
YOUR REF:CLAIMS/ATM/203
This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of your fund transfer through Bank to Bank Transfer and Western Union and Money-Gram network, we have credited your part-payment total of $ 3.6millon Usd  valid fund into an (ATM Card Number 50622910222744519) and I have paid the re-activation  fee and the delivery of the ATM Card To you,I paid it because the ATM Card worth of $2,600,000.00 which I have registered it delivery yesterday has less than Seven days to expire in the custody of the UPS delivery Company and when it expires, the money will  go into Federal Government treasury account.
With that we decided to help you pay off the money so that the ATM Card will not expire, because I trust that when you receive your ATM Card definitely you must pay me back my money and even compensate me for helping you.
Now I want you to contact UPS EXPRESS at:(urgent.upsservice@gmail.com) With your physical address you desire the delivery to be made so that they can deliver your ATM Card to your designated address without any delay.
Like I stated earlier, the crediting re-activation,delivery and the company registration charges has been paid by me, but we did not pay their official keeping fees since they refused,they refused and the reason is that they do not know when you are going to contact them and the demur- rage might have increased by then, They told me that their keeping fees is $30 per day only,and I deposited it yesterday 1th Agust 2013.
Below is the Contact Information of the UPS EXPRESS Customer Service Director Mr.CLIVE CHARLTON, Email Address online: (urgent.upsservice@gmail.com)  Contact them today and also send them the security official keeping charge to avoid increase of their fees and let me know once you receive your ATM card, Important Notice, your ATM CARD package was registered as a gift so that the delivery agent will not know the content of your package okay.
Below is the Registration Information’s of your ATM CARD SHIPMENT,
SHIPMENT CODE AWB 37XcS
REGISTERED TAG FCSCB77018.
SECURITY CODE SCAT/2012fedex/396/
TRANSACTION CODE 233/CYST/101/86048/
CERTIFICATE DEPOSIT CODE SCAT/BUN/lxiv/-08/02
Your faithfully
Mr.Victor Adams
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA®
 

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