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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: Regional Office <Office@sound.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: AfD Bank <atmdept@pisem.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 18:36:44 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Payment approval


Dear Fund Beneficiary,

This message is directed to you, based on a supplementary international agreement regarding payment request letters, of all Winning/ Inheritance funds. We have actually been authorized by the newly appointed, (IMF) secretary general and the governing body of UN Monetary Unit to investigate challenging/ unnecessary delay to release the payment, $4,320,000.00 (Four Million Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand US Dollars), as recommended and approved in your favor. This is the third times your Payment file has come to our table, and every time an Executive Order comes from the government, ordering that your fund should be recalled back to the Bank Escrow account, without any genuine reason. During the course of our investigation, we discovered that your payment has been unnecessarily complicated by corrupt officials in the Bank trying to divert your funds into their own private accounts.

Please take note of the following changes; Ministry of Economy and Finance orders the bank to release your payment to you without further delay. The following issues were discussed at the audit committee leadership summit, which the Boards and Audit Committees seek more involvement and instruct the bank to make the payment through atm visa credit card.
“Furthermore, you shall continue to have access to the use of the atm card at ATMs in any part of the world but subject to the annual limit of $2,160,000.00 ATM withdrawal shall continue to be a maximum of $6000. Per day.”

Contact Mr. James Alban
director atm swift card/foreign operation dept
+229 9005 9148 atmdept@pisem.net

provides him with information below.

Name
Address
Date of Birth
Telephone
ID card, such as your driver’s license or Passport

Yours sincerely,
Dave Herbert
Public Information Officer
Regional Office.

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