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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: "Mr.David Green" <"HHH."@tea.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mr.David Green" <deliveryagent1022@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 20:37:51 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ATM CARD DEPARTMENT OFFICE


This is to bring to your notice that we have credited your total sum of
$2.5 million valid fund into an ATM MASTER CARD and I have paid the
re-activation fee and the delivery of the ATM Card to you, I paid it
because the ATM Card worth of $2,500,000.00 which I have registered for
delivery yesterday has less than 31 days to expire in the custody of the
DELIVERY COMPANY and once it expires, the money will go into Federal
Government treasury account.
(deliveryagent1022@gmail.com)
With that we decided to help you pay off the money so that the ATM Card
will not expire, because I trust that when you receive your ATM Card
definitely you must pay me back my money and even compensate me for helping
you.

I was calling the telephone number you provided then, but unavailable to
confirm if you still living in your formal address for the registration of
the ATM Card.

Like I stated earlier, the crediting re-activation, delivery and the
company registration charges has been paid by me, 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 the demur-rage
might have increased by then, They told me that their keeping fees is $55
per day only, and I deposited it yesterday being 15th November 2017.

Get back to us today and also send the security official keeping charge to
avoid increase of their fees and let me know once you receive your ATM card,

Important Notice: Your ATM CARD package is rapped with pin code paper
together with the instructions from the issuing bank on how you will be
using the card to withdraw your fund daily and I registered it as gift so
that the diplomatic Agent will not know the content of your package okay.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr.David Green
ATM CARD DEPARTMENT OFFICE

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