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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: "ATM PAYMENT CENTER" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <agentfrankwright@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:23:16 +0800
Subject: Immediate ATM DEBIT Cash Card Payment Notification

International Settlement Dept.
Room 3612, China World Tower 2,
No. 1 Jianguomenwai Avenue
Beijing 100004, P.R. China
 
Immediate ATM DEBIT Cash Card Payment Notification
 
This is to officially inform you that we the International Monetary Fund Reconciliation
Schemes have choose to verify your contract/inheritance file and found that why you been
unable to receive your payment because you have not fulfilled the obligations given to you
in respect of your contract / inheritance payment which this office had the original seal
of this agreement with the assigned governmental organization between the involved parties.
Secondly we have been informed that you are still dealing with the none officials in the
bank and all your attempts to secure the release of the fund to you have not been successful
for this reasons. We wish to advice you that such an illegal act like this have to stop if
you wish to receive your payment since we have decided to bring a solution to your problem.
 
We have arranged your payment through our swift card payment centers, which is the latest
instruction from International Monetary Fund Reconciliation office. The card center will
send to you an ATM debit card which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine
in any part of the world, so if you like to receive your fund in this way, please let us know
by contacting our ATM Center Manager with the requested information as listed below to the
follow office via email.
International Monetary Fund,
 
International Settlement Dept.
Room 3612, China World Tower 2,
No. 1 Jianguomenwai Avenue
Beijing 100004, P.R. China
Telephone:008613226417582
Email: agentfrankwright@gmail.com
CONTACT PERSON: Mr Frank Wright
 
Required information:
1. Full Name
2. Phone and Fax Number
3. Address Were You Want Them to Send the ATM Card to (P.O Box Not Acceptable)
4. Your Age and Current Occupation
5. Country
 
In the mean time we have been mandated to issue out this payment via this scheme due this fiscal
budget year of 2010 against the World Financial and Economic crisis. Also for your information,
you have to stop any further communication with any other person (s) or office(s) to avoid any
hitches in receiving your payment. Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code
of conduct, which is (ATM-3914) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center
by using it as your subject.Now contact our ATM center Manager for more details.
We Wait For Your Expedite Response.
 
Yours in Service,
Mrs. Jane Wong
International Settlement Dept.
International Monetary Fund

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