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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: "ATM CARD PAYMENT DEPARTMENT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <atmcardoffice@africamail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:19:34 -0800
Subject: REPLY NOW TO RECEIVE YOUR FUNDi


May God Always Be With You and Your family,


This is to bring to your notice that, I have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery of your ATM Card. I paid it because the ATM Card (code 8213 )sum of US$(950,000.00) has less four weeks 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 Card will not expire, because I know when you get your ATM Card definitely you must pay me back my money and even compensate me for helping you.

Now I want you to contact Fast Service Express Delivery Company. with your Full Contact information so that they can deliver your Card to your desalinated address without any delay. 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 demurral might have increase.They told me that their keeping fees is $24 per day and i deposited it Yesterday. Below is their Contact Information.


Fast Service Express Delivery Company.
EMAIL: fastservicedeliveryagent@fastservice.com
Address: #1875 Meriden-waterbury Turnpike Cotonou Benin Republic.


Contact them Today to avoid increase of their keeping fees and let me know once you receive your Atm Card.

Making the world a better place.

Best Regards.
MRS. ELIZABETH NANA
DIRECTOR OF ATM CARD PAYMENT DEPARTMENT .
CENTRAL OFFICE OF BENIN REPUBLIC BRANCH UBA

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