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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: "James Comey" <comey@holistica.com.br>
Reply-To: atmpaymntcenter@admin.in.th
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 10:34:32 -0300
Subject: Contact Mrs. Susan Dawson at The Payment Center




Attention Beneficiary,

Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive
their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and
Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have noticed that you have been transacting with
some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo/Mr.Lamido Sanusi
of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank, Anderson, none officials of
Oceanic Bank, BIB, CITI BANK, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr.
Usman Shamsuddeen and some impostors claiming to be The Federal Bureau of investigation.

The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center
(IFCC) on how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these impostors. As a result of
this, we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us. We have
negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $5,900,000.00(Five
Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars). will be released to you via a certified custom pin based ATM
card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $15,000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used
anywhere in the world where you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM).

We guarantee receipt of your payment. This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make
sure all debts owed to citizens of American and also Asia and Europe which includes
Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared. Below are few list of tracking numbers
you can track from Delivery Company website to confirm people like you who have received their
payment successfully.

Name: Mr and Mrs RANGANBAY: DHL Tracking Number: 2282232175 (www.dhl.com)
Name: Mrs Rhonda Rawls: FedEx Tracking number 532128027722 (www.fedex.com)

To redeem your funds, you are hereby advised to contact the ATM Card Center via email for their
requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM
Release Order on your behalf which will cost you $285usd only and nothing more as everything else
has been taken care of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so
all you will ever need to pay is $285.00 only.


ATM Card Center Director Mrs. Dawson Susan
Official Email: atmpaymntcenter@admin.in.th


FULL NAMES: __________________________________
DELIVERY ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD: __________________
SEX: _______________
DATE OF BIRTH: __________________
OCCUPATION: __________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER: _____________________
EMAIL ADDRESS: _____________________

On contacting her with your details your file would be updated and she will be sending you the
payment information in which you will use in making the payment of $285.00 via Western Union the
procurement of your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order, after
which the delivery of your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without any
further delay, No extra fee.

JAMES COMEY,
DIRECTOR OF FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE
TREASURY CONTROL DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your
ATM card, you are hereby advised only to be in contact with Mrs. Dawson Susan the Treasury Control
Unit Officer (Visa ATM PAYMENT CENTER) who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your
payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon it
immediately. Help stop cyber crime.

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