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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: "UNITED NATIONS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <willrichard0037@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 17:44:47 -0600
Subject: ATTENTION ! ATTENTION !!

Attention Beneficiary,

Records show that you are among one of the individuals

and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue

payment from overseas which includes those of
Lottery/Gambling,Contract and Inheritance.
The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information

from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) on how

some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these

impostors. As a result of this, we hereby advise you to

stop communication with any one not referred to you by

us. We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of

Finance that your payment totaling $5,900,000.00(Two

Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars). will be

released.

To redeem your funds, you are hereby advised to contact

the ATM Card Center via email for their requirement to

proceed and procure your Approval of Payment, Meanwhile,

a woman came to my office this morning with an

application for transfer of the fund into her account on

your behalf, claiming to be your representative.

Here are the information's she submitted for the

transfer of your fund to her bank account.Name MRS.

DORIS MORISON.

Bank name: DISCOVER BANK, California.

Account number: 6503809428.

Please, do re-confirm to this office as a matter of

urgency if this woman is truly from you as this office

will not be held responsible for paying your fund into

wrong account. Your ATM MASTER CARD will be deliver to

your address through courier delivery services within 24

hours.

BELOW ARE YOUR ATM CARD DATA :

AMOUNT CREDIT : USD$5.900.000.00 MILLION
YOUR ATM CARD ACCOUNT # : 4848422799442698
CARD LIMIT PER A DAY : USD$20,000
EXPIRING DATE : 28/05/2021


Mr.Williams Richard (ATM Card Center Director)
Baadder Bank Germany.

ATM Card Center Director Mr.Williams Richard
Email:willrichard0037@yahoo.com


Do contact Mr.Williams Richard of the ATM Card Center

via his contact details above and furnish him with your

details as

listed below:

FULL NAMES: __________________________________
DELIVERY ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD: __________________
SEX: _______________
DATE OF BIRTH: __________________
OCCUPATION: __________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER: _____________________
EMAIL ADDRESS: _____________________


AfterWhich the delivery of your ATM card will be

effected to your designated home address without any

further delay.

Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or

offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM card,

you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Mr

Williams Richard of the ATM card center who is the

rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment

and forward any emails you get from impostors to this

office so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop

cyber crime.


UNTED BANK OF AFRICA
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

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