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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: "Miss. Mary John" <mayorcleark@gmail.com>
Reply-To: africardcenter1@aol.com
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 23:13:27 -0500
Subject: RE: NOTIFICATION RELEASE OF YOUR APPROVED FUNDS.

From: International Funds Recovery and Management Agency,
United Nation"AU CHAPTER"

Dear Sir,

RE: NOTIFICATION RELEASE OF YOUR APPROVED FUNDS.

From. Mr.Mike Anderson, the new appointed Postman of Regular Mail
Post Office branched at Cotonou Benin. I resumed this office on 23th
November 2020, On going through the files of the previous records of
this office, I discovered that there are six parcels containing ATM
Visa Cards, each one attached with an email address of the owner on
it. The former appointee of this office (Andrew Musa.) failed to carry
out the delivery as it was instructed and programmed. Probably, one of
his reasons for not carrying out the delivery was that you have not
provided your postal address to him for the completion of the delivery
as he remarked. According to the content recorded in each file, the
ATM card was deposited by one Senior Evangelist Mathew Peterson who
died a year back as a charity foundation parcel to each of the six of
you. On the statement he wrote, he stated that each of the
aforementioned ATM Visa Card contains the sum of USD$4,700,000.00 and
he found your email contacts as reputable and capable persons that can
use the charity awarded ATM Visa Card to change the lives of people.

However, I've made the arrangement of posting the six parcels through
Regular Mail Post Office to the six of you to your respective mailing
addresses. I am also sending the same message of the same content to
six of you that own the six abandoned ATM Visa Cards each at the same
time. If found in spam folder, it could be due to your Internet
Service Provider, ISP. So move to your inbox before your reply.

I went to our head office at Cotonou Benin and reported the issue of
the discovered six ATM cards in my office and they verified it and
gave me the veto order to carry out the delivery immediately you
reconfirm your mailing address to this office in order for us to mail
the ATM Visa Card directly to you after Postal Stamp of the parcel.
Note, below information is officially needed for posting of the ATM
Visa Cards ASAP.

1. YOUR FULL NAME.
2. YOUR HOME ADDRESS.OR OFFICE ADDRESS
3. YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER.
4. YOUR OCCUPATION.
5. YOUR AGE.
6. YOUR COUNTRY.

Mail Post Off we shall post your ATM Visa Card once you update us with
the above info and you shall be given a tracking number to Track and
Trace number of your parcel once it is posted to your mailing address,
so as to enable you track your parcel to know exactly when it will
arrive to your mailing address.

Regards,Mr. Mike Anderson (africardcenter1@aol.com)
Postman, Regular ice Cotonou

EMAIL HIM NOW SO THAT HE CAN PROVIDE THE ATM CARD INFORMATION TO YOU
AS URGENT AS YOU CAN.
THANKS AND GOD BLESSING YOU
Miss. Mary John

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