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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: Hon James Solomon <"www."@triton.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Hon James Solomon <richarddaniel248@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 03:47:11 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ATTENTION DEAR FUND BENEFICIARY??

ATTENTION DEAR FUND BENEFICIARY??

This is to let you know that we have received an instruction from the United
Nation by orders of the Ministry of Finance, Republic of Benin to release your
Approved payment of $40 Million Dollars via OCEANIC ATM VISA CARD which you
will use to withdraw your $40 Million Dollars from any ATM Machine in any part
of the world. I must thank you and assure you that your OCEANIC BANK VISA CARD
number 5274783644673648 748; has been approved and upgraded in your favour this
morning.

The amount upgraded in the ATM CARD is $40 Million Dollars, and your secret pin
number is 8081, Right now, Invitation have been extended to you to visit
OCEANIC BANK Benin Republic for collection of your OCEANIC BANK ATM VISA CARD
and PIN NUMBER so that you can activate it by yourself and start withdrawing
funds from any ATM Machine in your country but the amount you can withdraw in a
day is $10,000, per day as we have programmed it.

Alternatively, if you are unable to visit OCEANIC BANK Republic of Benin for
collection of this your OCEANIC BANK ATM VISA CARD and PIN NUMBER, you must
therefore apply for the OCEANIC BANK ATM VISA 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 OCEANIC BANK ATM VISA CARD to your address amount
is $100. (2 Insurance Coverage of the OCEANIC BANK ATM VISA CARD amount is
$85.00.Both payments is the sum of $197.00 it must been paid to enable us ship
the OCEANIC BANK ATM VISA CARD to your address to enable you start withdrawing
your $40Million Dollars from any ATM machine in any part of the world.

This OCEANIC BANK ATM VISA CARD must be insured so that it can get to you
without any problem and diversion. This is because this ATM CARD that can be
use to withdraw funds from any ATM Machine in any part of the world.Secondly
the officer in charge is .Hon James Solomon, and make sure you do forward your
full information’s to us such as.

(1). Your Full Name,================
(2). Your Country, =================
(3). Your Direct Telephone Numbers, =======
(4). Your Direct Office Phone Numbers, =======
(5). Mobile Phone Number,================
(6). Your Correct Home Address,===========
(7). Your Office Address, ===============
(8). Your Current Occupation============
(9). your age, ======================
(10).Your Next Of Kin’s Name,==========
(11).Your Next Email Address,==========

Please indicate to the card centre the total sum you are expecting and for your
information, you have to stop any further communication with any institution or
office until you receive the Atm card. Note: because of impostors, we hereby
issue you, your pin code of conduct tag number which is (8039) .

so you must have to indicate this code when contacting the card center. We
await your urgent response. So if you cannot come to OCEANIC BANK of Republic
of Benin for collection of your OCEANIC BANK ATM VISA CARD, you must therefore
kindly go right now To western union or money gram and send this shipment and
insurance fee of $197.dollars via Western Union Money transfer with the details
below And write the MTCN number down and your sender name bellow down the
details

Receiver's name=========Dean Edson
Country==============Benin Republic
City =================Cotonou
Text Question==========WHEN
Text Answer============NOW
Amount ===============$197.
MTCN....
Sender...

As soon as the fee is received, we shall immediately dispatch the OCEANIC BANK
ATM VISA CARD to you and it will take only 2 days to arrive to your address to
enable you start withdrawing funds that same day from any ATM machine nearest
to you

Sincerely Hon James Solomon,Director Atm department

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