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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.Joe Martin Clayton" <cardatmservice@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Mr.Joe Martin Clayton" <globalpostalshippingcompany@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:40:35 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: We Are Ready To Move Your ATM CARD To You Keep To Our Directive And
Reply Now


 Dear Sir/Madam,
We supposed to have commence with the delivering and would have
complete it by tomorrow, we are %100 ready and SURE to get the
ATM CARD to you and hand it over to you in your house.

We have never hear from you based on your promised, what is
pending you from sending the $97? Do you think you are sending
the $97 to me or what? Already we have explained to you the
reasons of sending it and has directed you to Send it through
MONEY GRAM or WESTERN UNION. We shall complete the delivery
once the confirmation of the payment is made. Remember,all the
legal documents has already secured to back up the shipping of
the ATM CARD to you, means you should not worry over anything
about any Agency against intercepting your ATM CARD.

The payment instruction shall be forward to you once we hear
from you,We need to finalize this to enable the Fund Control
Units write off your payment file as a claimed CARD.By tomorrow
Night, the shall arrive in your City and hand over your ATM
 CARD to you once you keep to this directive.

Already those secured Certificate with the ATM CARD has placed
on legal electronic dictator inspection by the Benin joint Fund
Control Units to know if any fault, and am happy that it has
already approved.We have sealed it intact the Hard Disc and has
forwarded a Copy to your Security Agency who has signed it,so
feel very free with us and reconfirm your information`s once again.
Thanks,
    Sincerely
Mr.Joe Martin Clayton.
Representing the Global Postal Service

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