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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. Benneth Joseph" <lisa@byersn.com>
Reply-To: benjoseph1956@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 04:44:39 -0700
Subject: from African Development Bank


African Development Bank
Plot 813, Lake Chad Crescent
Maitama District
Abuja, Nigeria.

Attention: Beneficiary.

We apologize for the delay on the delivery of your ATM VISA CARD and
all the inconveniences we might put you through, while we were having
some minor problems in uploading your fund transfer into an ATM MASTER
CARD for delivery. Which in all case not meeting up with our delivery
service. Once again we apologize

Note that you have a registered ATM VISA CARD of ($6.400.000.00 USD)
to be delivered to you by through Express Courier Company. Having review all the
obstacles and problems surrounding the transfer of your ($6.400,000.00
USD) Six Million Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars, We the
Board of Directors (African Development Bank) ordered our Foreign Payment
Remittance Unit to issue you a CORPORATE VISA CARD where your payment
was uploaded few days ago.

Immediately we got your Payment uploaded into CORPORATE VISA CARD, we
ordered for the delivery of your ATM VISA CARD via Express Courier
in other to bit the time already wasted with this payment.

You are hereby adviced to forward the below informations for upadte to express delivery company. forward the address as stated below:

YOUR FULL NAME:………….
YOUR HOUSE ADDRESS:………… {NOT P.O BOX}
YOUR CITY/AREA:…………
YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER:…
YOUR ID CARD :…………

Kindly Note that the bank will only take care of the delivery cost, They will proceed immediately to your Home Address as soon as they
receives your current delivery details.

Note. your ATM visa card withdrawing access PIN number is (2424) take
note, once you receive the ATM card take it to any ATM teller machine
or POS cash point around your area and slot the card and enter the PIN
number (2424) to activate and start withdrawing thereafter, or you can
ask your delivery agent to activate the ATM card for you before
leaving. Make sure you enter the 4 digit code yourself for security
reason. Finally, be informed that we left an instruction to your
delivery agent DHL, for urgent delivery of your ATM Visa Card,
immediately you forward him the required information, feel free to get
in touch with him today.

Thanks,

Dr. Benneth Joseph
Call phone +2348022070289
Email ;drbenjoseph5@gmail.com
Director ATM and Risk Management.

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