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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: "Barr. Abel Greg" <barrjerrytotti@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: "Barr. Abel Greg" <mr.abelgreg@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 17:25:27 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: URGENT NOTIFICATION

Attn : Dear,

I'm Barrister Abel Greg from ATM card center African Clearing House Abuja Nigeria and I am in charge to direct ATM cards delivery from all over Africa to any part of the world and I have mailed to notify the readiness of your ATM visa card. We tried reaching you last week but couldn’t hear back from you, I hope this gets to you as your ATM visa card is among the cards that have be delivered to our Clearing House in USA?

However we have been mandated to distribute this funds to various beneficiaries on an ATM visa card, following the recent sanction from United Nation Organization (UNO) to West African Banks responsible for these transactions, you will receive your ATM visa card through the African Clearing House in New-York USA as soon as you’ve responded to this mail by showing interest and following legal process of getting this done.

This will only cost you US$195.00 to clear your ATM visa card valued US$10,500.000.00 (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only!) from the African Clearing House New-York USA which has been made payable to any ATM machine in the world, so use the below receiver's details to send the clearing charge and also re-confirm your delivery address for immediate delivery of your card to your address to avoid wrong delivery.

Receiver's details for payment:
Receiver's Name...... Fatimat Bello
Country......... Nigeria
Amount.........US$195.00

Barr. Abel Greg.
For enquiry call +2348035728819
Email: mr.abelgreg@yahoo.com
This mail is sent to you from ATM card center.

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