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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: "pt" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <w.marshalldept@admin.in.th>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 00:06:16 +0200
Subject: KINDLY READ ATTACHED LETTER

HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE (FIC)
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
 
Dear E-mail Owner/Fund Beneficiary,
 
                        IRREVOCABLE PAYMENT ORDER VIA ATM CARD
This message is directed to you based on the letter Office of Mr. Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, the Honorable (Minister of Finance)
Republic of South Africa received from the International Monetary Funds Agency (I.M.F) and the G8 Summit meeting headed last
regarding the settlement of all Winning/ Inheritance funds to the Beneficiaries. Now, we have actually been authorized by Mr. Pravin
Jamnadas Gordhan, the Honorable (Minister of Finance) Republic of South Africa and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
secretary general to contact you for your overdue payment. This is the third time your Payment file has come to my table, and every
time an Executive Order comes from the government ordering that your fund should be recalled back to the World Bank Escrow
account, without any genuine reason. Meanwhile, our Payment Settlement System (PSS) has received another permanent
Authority/Irrevocable Release/Unconditional payments guarantee by the Honorable Minister of Finance, Mr. Pravin Jamnadas
Gordhan to pay you off your Winning/ Inheritance Funds via ATM Visa Card.
 
Also note that from the record in my file your outstanding Winning/Inheritance payment is USD$1.5Million dollars (One Million Five
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) only. Now your new Payment Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632
Password No: 339331, Pin Code No: 7644 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No: 103, ATM Visa Card Released Code No: 0763;
Immediate Telex confirmation No: -1114433, Secret Code No: XXTN013, Having received these vital payment numbers, therefore
You are qualified now to received and confirm Your payment with the HSBC BANK PLC LONDON UNITED KINGDOM via ATM Visa
Card.
To issue the ATM Visa Card, you are therefore advised to contact the HSBC BANK PLC LONDON UNITED KINGDOM, this is so
because the United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Honorable Minister of
Finance has chosen them to payout your fund, because HSBC Bank ATM Visa Card is a global payments technology that enables
consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments to use digital currency instead of cash and checks, Kindly contact the
HSBC Bank ATM Visa Card Issuance Department now with the below contact details:
 
Contact: DR. W. R. MARSHALL.
Director ATM VISA CARD Issuance Department (HSBC Bank Plc London UK)
Contact E-mail: online.atm@admin.in.th
Direct Office lines: +44-741-847-8591
Fax Number: +44-844-774-4980
 
Meanwhile, a woman come to my office few days ago with a Sworn Affidavit from Pretoria High Court, claiming to be your true
representative, and that you have authorized her to receive the fund (ATM Visa Card) on your behalf. Her Name is: Mrs. Anne
Engelbrecht, Address: No: 34 Stiemens Street Braamfontein Gauteng South Africa. Please, do reconfirm to this office, as a
matter of urgency if this woman is from you so that the HSBC Bank Plc London will not be held responsible for paying to the wrong
beneficiary. However, HSBC Bank Plc will Proceed to Issue the ATM Visa Card to the Said (Mrs. Anne Engelbrecht) If they do not
hear from you within the Next Three (3) Banking Working days from today. So if you like to receive your funds through this means
you're advised to contact (DR. W. R. MARSHALL) and forward him the following information as stated below:
1. Your Full Name:
2. Address Where You Want the Courier Company to Send Your ATM Card To or (P.O Box)
3. Your Age:
4. Occupation:
5. Cell/Mobile Number:
6. Your country of origin
 
NOTE: You are advised to furnish DR. W. R. MARSHALL with your correct and valid details. Also be informed that the amount to be
paid to you now is USD$1.5Million (One Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) only. We expect your urgent
response to this email as to enable us monitor this payment effectively thereby making contact with DR. W. R. MARSHALL as
directed to avoid further delay.
Please Be Warned, as The United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) does not instruct any
other Bank or agent in this payment except (DR. W. R. MARSHALL), whom we can only give attention to, and from now, we advice
you to stop all the communications you are having with any other Agent or bank officials in Europe, Asia and Africa regarding to your
payment.
Yours in Services.
MR. ANDREW MOOR
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER.
(FIC) SOUTH AFRICA.

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