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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.Victor Mogarn" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <internatioanldeliv@foxmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 02:53:52 -0500
Subject: YOUR REF:CLAIMS/ATM/206

Dear Beneficiary:

YOUR REF:CLAIMS/ATM/206

This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of your transferring your funds through Bank to Bank Transfer and Western Union and Money-Gram network and also due to inability of some courier company to deliver your consignment box, we have credited your part-payment total of $10.5millon Usd valid fund into an (ATM Master Card Number 539824214238) and I have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery of the ATM Card To you,I paid it because the ATM Card worth of $5,600,000.00 which I have registered it delivery yesterday, it has less than Seven days to expire in the custody of the TNT delivery Company and when it expires, the money will go into Federal Government treasury account.
With that we decided to help you pay off the money so that the ATM Card will not expire, because I trust that when you receive your ATM Card definitely you must pay me back my money and even compensate me for helping you.
Now I want you to contact TNT EXPRESS at:(internatioanldeliv@foxmail.com) With your physical address you desire the delivery to be made so that they can deliver your ATM Card to your designated address without any delay.

Reconfirm this information's to them.

Full name......................
Home address............
Country....................
Telephone...............
Copy of your id card

Like I stated earlier, the crediting re-activation,delivery and the company registration charges has been paid by me, but we did not pay their official keeping fees since they refused,they refused and the reason is that they do not know when you are going to contact them and the demur- rage might have increased by then, They told me that their keeping fees is $50 per day only,and I deposited it yesterday.

Below is the Contact Information of the TNT EXPRESS Customer Service Director MR.Clive RICE, Email Address online: (internatioanldeliv@foxmail.com) Contact them today and also send them the security official keeping charge to avoid increase of their fees and let me know once you receive your ATM card, Important Notice, your ATM MASTER CARD package was registered as a gift so that the delivery agent will not know the content of your package okay.

Below is the Registration Information’s of your ATM CARD SHIPMENT,
SHIPMENT CODE AWB 27XbS
REGISTERED TAG FCSCB77518.
SECURITY CODE SCAT/2015TNT/396/
TRANSACTION CODE 283/CYST/122/83618/
CERTIFICATE DEPOSIT CODE SCAT/BUN/lxiv/-08/03
DEPOSIT CERTIFICATE N0.: 422676

Your faithfully
Mr.Victor Mogarn
United Nations Compensation Commission

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