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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: "Dr. Lawrence Willie" <"Lawrence."@apricot.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: uba_benin.002@outlook.com
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 18:17:32 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Your UBA BANK ATM MASTER CARD number 522 478364 4673788 700; has
been approved

UBAWelcome To United Bank For Africa (UBA) Benin



I am very surprise for your continued silence towards your fund My
greatest supersaturation is this I sent you an email but you did not
reply.

On a serious note, you are given 48hrs to comply with the fee
or your payment file will be return back to the Authority as unclaimed fund you know
what it means. Now get back to us before it will be too late.

Merry Christmas and happy new year advance

This bank received your mail its noted, an instruction from the United Nation by orders of the Ministry of Finance, Federal Republic of Benin to release your Approved payment of US$10.5Million Dollars via UBA BANK ATM MASTER CARD which you will use to withdraw your US$10.5 Million Dollars from any ATM Machine in any part of the world.

Your UBA BANK ATM MASTER CARD number 522 478364 4673788 700; has been approved and upgraded in your favor today. The amount upgraded in the ATM CARD is US$10.5 Million Dollars and your secret pin number is 8041, Right now, Invitation have been extended to you to visit UBA BANK Benin Republic for the collection of your UBA BANK ATM MASTER CARD and PIN NUMBER so that you can activate it by yourself and start withdrawing funds from any ATM Machine in your country and bear in mind that the amount you can withdraw in a day is US$50,000,But you cannot withdraw the US$50,000 at once,you can only withdraw US$10,000 into 5 times as we have programmed it making it the US$50,000.

Alternatively, if you are unable to visit UBA BANK Federal Republic of Benin for collection of your UBA BANK ATM MASTER CARD and PIN NUMBER, you must therefore apply for the UBA BANK ATM MASTER CARD and PIN NUMBER to be sent to you via our diplomatic courier service at your own expenses by offsetting the following payments such as;

1) Shipment fee of the UBA BANK ATM MASTER CARD to your address amounting to USD35.00
2) Insurance Coverage of the UBA BANK ATM MASTER CARD is USD20.00, total amount is USD55.00

Both payments totaling the sum of USD55.00 must be paid to enable us ship your ATM MASTER CARD to your address as to enable you start withdrawing your US$10.5 Million Dollars from any ATM machine in any part of the world.

Meanwhile re-confirm your full details to avoid wrong delivering ok

Full name:
Home Address:
Your Phone Number:
Your Date Of Birth:
State and Zip...
Country...


So, if you cannot come down to UBA BANK of Federal Republic of Benin for collection of your ATM MASTER CARD, you must therefore kindly go right now and send this shipment and insurance fee of USD55.00 via Western Union Money transfer or money gram transfer with the details below and get back to us with the payment information for urgent pick up and proceed the delivery of your ATM MASTER CARD to your home address as nominated,

Below is the information where you should send the shipment and insurance fee of USD55.00 via Western Union or Money Gram.

Receiver's name: INNOCET UBAH
Country.. Benin Republic
City .. Cotonou
Text Question..When
Text Answer..Now
Amount USD55.00
MTCN...
SENDER....

As soon as the fee is received, we shall immediately dispatch your ATM MASTER CARD to you and it will take only 24hours to arrive to your address to enable you start withdrawing funds the same day from any ATM machine nearest to you. you can contact us with this email address below uba_benin.002@outlook.com

Thank you for banking with United Bank For Africa (UBA)

Regards
Dr. Lawrence Willie
Executive Director United Bank For Africa (UBA)
Phone: +229 96222356

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