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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: "Platinum Card" <recipients@unrc.org>
Reply-To: edwardherbert08@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:41:43 +0100
Subject: Reply Immediately for your compensation

This is to inform you that we have been working towards the

eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa with

thehelp of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) United

Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and FBI.

We have been able to track down some scam artist in various

parts of African countries and they are all in Government

custody now, they will appear at International Criminal Court
(ICC) soon for Justice.

During the course of investigation, they were able to

recovered some funds from these scam artists and IMF

organization have ordered the funds recovered to be shared among
the 10 Lucky people listed around the World as a compensation. This

notice is been directed to you because your email address was found

in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard-disk while the investigation, maybe you have been scammed. You are therefore being compensated with sum of USd$6.5 Million Dollars, valid into an
(ATM Card Number 506119102227445170).

Since your email address is among the lucky beneficiaries

who will receive a compensation funds, we have arranged

your payment to be paid to you through ATM VISA CARD and deliver

to your postal address with the Pin Numbers as to enable

you withdrawal maximum of $5,000 on each withdrawal from any

Bank ATM Machine of your choice, until all the funds are

exhausted.

The ATM Card with Security Pin Numbers shall be delivered

to you via courier Service, depending your choice.
In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be

required to contact the agent in-charge ( Pastor Edward

Herbert ) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: Pastor Edward Herbert

PHONE NUMBER:+233545057622
You will be required to e-mail him with the following

information:
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
COUNTRY:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
We advice you to stop all the communications with everyone

regarding your payment as we have short listed to deliver

to you and now urge you to comply and receive your ATM Card funds.
Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions

while I wait to hear from you today.
Yours in Services
Mr. Steven


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