419 scam: Attorney Paul Benson <card.atm33@yahoo.pt> HELLO,THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOU?

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Attorney Paul Benson <card.atm33@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Attorney Paul Benson <attorney_paul_benson@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:23:54 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: HELLO,THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOU?

Â Good news,I am Attorney Paul Benson .(SAN) The Legal attorney to the approved paying Bank as directed by the
office of the Presidency/UN after a joint meeting with the CBN,I wish to inform
you that the paying Bank has processed your approved fund Atm Card as instructed
to ensure smooth transaction considering what it has cause you in the past
trying to receive your FUND in the hands of those impostors but to NO avail
hence i contacted you.

Upon the above
information,I have collected your ATM CARD now on your behalf as the legal
attorney to the Bank and all that is required of you is to come down for the
pick up or should I send it to you via courier ??? Meanwhile,The Bank told me
that they will send you the PIN- CODE NUMBER directly for security reasons and
also told me that you can only withdraw $10,000.00 daily from this Card for
years because they credited the sum of $6Million inside this Card.

I look forward to hear from you soonest to enable me
give you the Bank data for your ATM CARD PIN-CODE NUMBER.

Thanks,

Attorney
Paul Benson.
Tell:+234_8175134334

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