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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.Marthew West" <"www."@sweet.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Dr.Marthew West" <marthewwest8181@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 19:29:34 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention,


Attention,
To The Owner Of This E-mail,I have contacted my secretary to confirm
if you have received the compensation draft cheque of (US$10.500.000)
which I issued in your name, but he told me that he could not send it
to you because of the courier charges. Now I have called my bank to
cancel any payment regards to the draft cheque and then authorized
them to transfer the payment into ATM CARD in your name which they
did. As of now be informed that all charges has been paid and the ATM
CARD is going to be in your name, but to reactivate the ATM Card you
have to forward your current informations as requested below to the
bank and the only money you will pay to the bank is US$150 for the ATM
Card Reactification fee, then they will send you the ATM CARD for your
immediate use.
Here are the informations you have to forward to the bank:
1. YOUR FULL NAMES:______
2. Postal ADDRESS:_______
3. PHONE NUMBER:_________
4. CELL NUMBERS:_______
5. EMAIL ADDRESS:________
6. SEX:_____
7. AGE:_____
8. OCCUPATION:________
9. NATIONALITY:________
CONTACT PERSON: Dr.Marthew West
Director, ATM Foreign Operation Dept.INTERCONTINENTAL Bank Cotonou,
Benin Republic.
Phone: + 229 99767007
Email : ( marthewwest8181@yahoo.com)
Get back to me once you received the ATM CARD ok.
Thanks and God bless you.

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