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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: "WEMA BANK PLC." <dan_hary@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: "WEMA BANK PLC." <johnfountain42@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 00:28:39 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: ABOUT YOUR ATM CARD REPLY


 ATTENTION BENEFICIARY , 
I am Mr John  Fountain  General manager  to the ATM Payment Department of Wema Bank Plc. The attached picture was taken in my office where i was serving verification documents to the White men Mr Gabriel Evans and Mr Alan Mills who stormed my office in bank of the Black Gentleman (on white African attire). the black man Mr  Fred Johnson claimed to be your representative and the supervisory Engineer that supervised and certified your ATM CARD execution that was shifted from the previous Paying Institute to the ATM Payment department (OUR DEPARTMENT) because of their inability to have paid it at the agreed time.
They said that you were dead and before your death, you appointed them as the next of kin to your contract/inherited  fund presently under our custody these two white-men and the black gentleman quickly applied that your Inherited fund should be presented to them at the spot.
The Official responsible for the presentation of consignment quickly granted approvals to their application and packaged the fund for them to go with it . When the ATM Payment Department Debit Note was submitted to my desk for final Approvals before forwarding it to them for endorsement, I noticed that there are discrepancies as there was no evidence of authorization letter from you for the change of beneficiary. I urgently summoned The Official responsible for the presentation of the ATM Card and every documents and directed him to stop the movement of the funds and at the same time placed a stop order instruction on the funds pending when your views and comments are received with regards to this matter.
Please study the attached photograph and call me urgently for your comments which will be highly appreciated, but we will not hesitate to continue the payment transmission to them if no response comes from you.  and you are advice to send the requested charges of  $50 Dollars today so that we can obtain the affidavit of Claim on your behalf.we can send you your ATM-Card as soon as possible, we want you to know that our bank is willing to help you at this point  only as soon as you can comply by today and i promise that your ATM card will be at your door step by today without any further delay again. Please you are advice to comply as soon as possible so that you can get your ATM card before today runs out.
I want you to know that there is no time to waste you have to understand and send the requested fee of $50 Dollars to obtain the affidavit of Claim  without any delay so that your ATM card will be at your Door step within today. I want to give you your PIN number: 0411 when you are sending the information to pickup the money, you are advice to send the PIN number: 0411, with your home address  were you want to receive your ATM card and direct telephone number.
please send the money with the below information via western union or money gram only with the below information:
Senders Name-----Sender  Address--------Receivers name----John MikeReceiver's Address:Lagos  NigeriaQuestion:----country?Answer:---Nigeria.Amount: $50 DollarsMTCN--------
As soon as you send the money today, please you have to call me or you email me the MTCN, immediately as your silence will be a clear indication that you authorized them to effect the above changes .
SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION  :
1.  FULL NAME:2.  PHONE AND FAX NUMBER:3.  HOME ADDRESS:4.  YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION:

Please I will be waiting for your reply now so that we can finalize every things by today.without you don't send this fee to provide you the Affidavit of Ownership Certificate for the releasement of your package today, you may loose your ATM card.
Waiting to hear from you soon.
Yours Sincerely,Mr John  FountainATM Security DepartmentWema Bank Plc

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