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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: "World Bank Assisted Program" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.jonathandavid1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 06:35:58 -0000
Subject: Attention-------Dear

 
(WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAM)
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
NIGERIA.
WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT
ATTENTION DEAR ;
This is a true compensation Approved by the UNITED NATION to compensate you, maybe you have been scam before and again you may be victim of scam by wrong people who paraded themselves on what they are not, so because of this, the United Nation approved the U.B.A bank in Africa where your fund originated to process an ATM MASTER CARD with valid cash of USD$80.000.00 in your favor in order to compensate you, so that if you have been scammed before this is a compensation and you will be making your withdrawals from the ATM MASTER CARD as you are allowed to make withdrawals minimum of US$4,000 (four Thousand United State Dollars) per a day or every 24hrs from any ATM MACHINE around you. Your ATM MASTER CARD will be delivered to your address through courier delivery serviceswithin 3 days.
please note that we are only using FEDEX COURIER COMPANY, they are the company that we signed a contract with, so we can actually monitor the delivery, so many complaints are rising up every day, concerning the inability of the young courier companies unable to make deliveries, we have also learnt that the DHL company asks for security fees, IMF fees, FBI fees and others, the only payment that the courier companies anywhere in the world asks of is just the delivery fee and the security fee, which is very understood, the united nations have warned all the security agencies to desist from an illegal act, as this fund is been sent to you due to the rate of poverty, so no one has the power to stop your delivery. In other to make sure that you are safe, we will assign a special task force team to follow up your delivery with the delivery agent so as to be sure that nothing happens to you and your ATM card after you receive it.
UPON THE RECEIPT OF THIS INFORMATION, YOU ARE OBLIGE TO CALL ATM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY
BELOW ARE YOUR ATM CARD DATA :
AMOUNT CREDIT : USD$80.000.00
YOUR ATM CARD ACCOUNT # : 4033052100311896
CARD WITHDRAWAL LIMIT PER A DAY : USD$4,000
EXPIRING DATE : 12/12/2016
PIN CODE # : 7501
You are required to confirm your full information.
Your full name
Your full contact Address
Your Telephone/mobile number.
Copy of your International Passport or Driver's license
Once you send these above information your ATM MASTER CARD will be processed and be delivered to your Address and you can as well move down to any nearest ATM MACHINE and apply your pin code # : 7501 to make your withdrawals without any delay.if you will be finding it difficult to make use of the card, one of the task force that will be assigned to you will assist you. I am waiting to hear from you and your advice .. forwards your details
Congratulations!!!
MR. JONATHAN DAVID
DIRECTOR SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTER.

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