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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: "Peter Huang" <atmswiftcard@hontglobal.com>
Reply-To: capitalsurebarry@zing.vn
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:26:52 -0400
Subject: Re: Sorry for the delay in responding / ATM=811.


Dear Valued Customer,
=

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract file =
presently on my desk, and i found out that you have not received your payme=
nt due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations givi=
ng to you in respect to your contract payment. Secondly, you are hereby adv=
ised to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an ille=
gal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immedi=
ately. =

=

After the board of director's meeting held in Capitalet Bank, we have reso=
lved in finding a solution to your problem. We have arranged your payment t=
hrough our swift card payment centre in Europe, America and Asia pacific; t=
his is part of an instruction/mandate passed by the senate in respect to ov=
erseas contract payment and debt re-scheduling. We will send you an ATM SWI=
FT CARD which you will use to withdraw your money via ATM machine in any pa=
rt of the world, and the maximum daily limit is three thousand United State=
Dollars ($3,000.00).The foreign payment officer of the has been mandated t=
o issue out Us$1.2 million United State Dollars as part payment for this fi=
scal year. =

=

If you like to receive your fund this way, kindly reconfirms your informat=
ion=92s as listed below. =

=

1. Full Name:
2. Nationality:
3. Telephone Number:
4. Mobile Number: =

=

Scan copy of your international passport or drivers license, we shall be e=
xpecting to receive your information as you have to stop any further commun=
ication with anybody or office. =

=

Thanks for your co-operation. =

=

Note: Because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, whic=
h is (ATM=3D811) so you have to indicate this code when ever you are contac=
ting us =

=

Best regards,
=

Peter Huang
Public Affairs Director
Capitalet Bank Plc =

=20

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