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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: Foreign Contract Payments <bankoceanic82@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: Foreign Contract Payments <a.p.c1@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:53:54 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Dear Customer Happy New Year




 
Dear Customer Happy New Year

This is to let you know that we
have received an instruction from the United Nation by orders of the
Ministry of Finance, Nigeria to release your Approved payment of US$6.5
Million Dollars via ATM cash Card which you will use to withdraw your
US$6.5 Million Dollars from any ATM Machine in any part of the world.

I
must thank you and assure you that ATM Card number 4084 6100 0023 6114;
has been approved and upgraded in your favor today. The amount upgraded
in the ATM CARD is US$6.5 Million Dollars and your secret pin number is
8081, Right now,Invitation have been extended to you to visit UBA BANK
Nigeria for collection of your ATM cash Card and PIN NUMBER so that you
can activate it by yourself and start withdrawing funds from any ATM
Machine in your country but the amount you can withdraw in a day is
$23,000, per day as we have programmed it.

Alternatively, if you
are unable to visit UBA BANK Nigeria for collection of this your ATM
cash Card and PIN NUMBER, you must therefore apply for the ATM cash Card
and PIN NUMBER to be sent to you via our diplomatic courier service at
your own expenses by-offsetting the following payments such as; (1)
Shipment fee of the ATM cash Card to your address amounting to US$50.00.
(2) Insurance Coverage of the ATM cash Card amounting to USDS$50.00.

Both
payments is the sum of US$100.00 must be paid to enable us ship the ATM
cash Card to your address to enable you start withdrawing your US$6.5
Million Dollars from any ATM machine in any part of the world, This ATM
cash Card must be insured so that it can get to you without any problem
and diversion. This is because this ATM cash Card that can be use to
withdraw funds from any ATM Machine in every part of the world.

And
make sure you do forward to them your full information’s such as. (1)
your full name.(2) Address where you want them to send the card through
diplomatic courier Service (P.O Box not accepted). (3) you’re direct
telephone numbers. (4) A copy of your international passport. Please
indicate to the card center the total sum you are expecting and for your
information, you have to stop any further communication with any
institution or office until you receive the ATM cash Card. Note: because
of impostors, we hereby issue you, your pin code of conduct tag number,
which is (8081) so you must have to indicate this code when contacting
the card center. We await your urgent response.

So, if you cannot
come to UBA BANK Nigeria for collection of your ATM cash Card, you must
therefore kindly go right now To western union or money gram and send
this shipment and insurance fee of US$100.00 via Western Union Money
transfer or money gram with the details below And write your MTCN number
down and your sender name below down the details

Receiver's Name.. Okolo James
Country.. Nigeria
City.. Lagos
Text Question..WHEN
Text Answer...NOW
Amount $100.
MTCN....
Sender...

As
soon as the fee is received, we shall immediately dispatch the ATM cash
Card to you and it will take only 2 days to arrive to your address to
enable you start withdrawing funds that same day from any ATM machine
nearest to you.

Thanks for your understanding and we are waiting for your quick reply and the payment information.

This massage is coming from.
Foreign Contract Payments
Mr. Peter Chike.

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