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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: "Ebele Ogboe." <"WWW."@fine.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "ceo.atmoffice45@gmail.com" <ceo.atmoffice45@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:22:18 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention dear beneficiary

Attention dear beneficiary:

This is to bring to your notice that, I have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery fee of your ATM CARD.I paid it because your ATM Card which contain $10.5 million us dollar, has less three years to expire and when it expires, the money will go into Government purse.

With that I decided to help you pay the money so that, the ATM will not expire, because I know that when you get your ATM definitely you must pay me back my money and even compensate me for helping you.

Now I want you to contact DHL DELIVERY SERVICE with your Full Contact information's so that they can deliver your Card to your designated address without any delay, also make sure that you send your full name, your phone number and your home address to avoid wrong delivery. Like I stated earlier, the delivery charges has been paid but I 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 their demurrage might increase. They told me that their keeping fee is $155 and I deposited your ATM CARD Yesterday. text him as soon as you receive this mail with your full information and ask him to give you the information that you will use to send him the keeping fees of $155 to enable them deliver your ATM CARD to you as we program.

Below is their Contact Information's,

DHL DELIVERY SERVICE
Contact Person: EDWIN PAUL,
E-Mail:. ceo.atmoffice45@gmail.com
Tel:.. +1 (442) 227-9100

Contact then Today to avoid increase of their keeping fees and let me know Once you receive your ATM Card and you can also text him on +1 (442) 227-9100 for quick respond.

Yours Faithfully
Ebele Ogboe.
Director of UBA BANK.
UBA BANK Height sPlot 87 Ajose
Adeogun Street, Cotonou, Benin

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