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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 Ben Nwaokocha <goodluckjim02@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ecobank02@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:57:03 +0100
Subject: REGARDING YOUR ATM CARD DELIVERY s

FROM: ATM DEPARTMENT
ECO BANK LTD
OKPNAM ROAD PLOT 3 PHASE
IV BLOCK 111 CORE AREA OKPNAM
ROAD ASABA DELTA STATE NIGERIA
PHONE NUMBER +2349038572297



Attention:



We hereby officially notifying you about the present arrangement to
pay you, your over due Winning Prize/inheritance fund which you could
not complete the process of the released of your transfer pin code
through the Digitized Payment System. We have decided to pay your
funds through (ATM Master Express Credit Card) This arrangement was
initiated/constituted by the World Bank and United Nations,due to
fraudulent activities going on within the world.
The World Bank and United Nations, introduced this payment
arrangement as to enable our Contract ,Winning Prize,inheritance
beneficiary to receive their fund without any interference.
The ATM MASTER EXPRESS CARD is credited with the sum of$7,500.000.00
USD(Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars), only is
under the custody of the Wells Eco Bank,Here in Nigeria,it is already
loaded in the Master Card which you can use to access your fund in any
ATM Stand/location worldwide and remember that the maximum withdrawal
daily limit is Ten Thousand United States Dollars(US$10,000.00)we have
concluded delivery arrangement with the below courier services
companies and their delivery time is stated below.


UPS

FedEx

DHL


for the shipment of your ATM Card to you.


1. Valid Delivery Address:____________


2. Full Names:__________


3. Phone Number:__________



Understand that you will be liable for the delivery fee of your ATM
Master Express Card to you with any of the above courier company.


CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE.


BEST REGARDS,

MR BEN NWAOKOCHA
Director Foreign Remittance Department
(Eco Bank)

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