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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!

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From: "MR. TONY QUEENS \(BBI\)" <masa4haru22chance2007@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: "MR. TONY QUEENS \(BBI\)" <info.bigmir.bj@bigmir.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 20:02:14 +0900 (JST)
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF US$7.5 MILLION PAYMENT BY ATM VISA CARD SWIFT TRANSFER


BIGMIR BANK INTERNATIONAL BENIN REPUBLIC
Also Known As King Bank Chef  (KBC)
HQ - Cotonou, Benin Republic
Mr. Ellis Wayne (CEO)
Contact Person: MR. DONA NELSON
Director Payment Operations Unit
ATM VISA ONLINE BANKING

STRICTLY FOR YOU & NEEDS URGENT RESPONSE PLEASE; YOUR US$7.5 MILLION PAYMENT BY AFRICARDs ATM VISA CARD

I am MR. DAVID CANTONA, Director of Payment Operations with Bigmir Bank International (BBI), am writing you this e-mail to inform you that a payment file containing your information was sent to my office for review yesterday morning, and I wish to inform you at this time that your outstanding payment at the tune of US$7.5 Million (Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) has been officially approved for immediate payment to you by ATM Visa Card Swift Transfer, the total fund will be credited into an ATM Card Account which enables you to withdraw the cash with your ATM Visa Card immediately after you have received and successfully activated the card.

Further more, before we can transfer such a huge amount of money to a client at any location around the world, we must seek the approval of the Department of Treasury & Finance Operations here in Benin Republic OR else the transfer will be stopped by the international fund regulatory body like the IMF, so this office must obtain a LETTER OF TRANSFER APPROVAL from the Department of Finance which will be signed by the bank head of executives and also by you as the beneficiary.

So therefore you have to come down to our head office here in Cotonou Benin Republic and bring along US$55 which will be used by our bank’s attorney to obtain the LETTER OF TRANSFER APPROVAL from the Department of Finance which is just to simply seek for a Legal Authorization to carry out the transaction and also the Bank will sign the Terms & Agreement and so you will have to sign the Acceptance of the Terms & Agreement with other available transfer documents by yourself as the beneficiary before you can receive your ATM Card and be able to use it as well. Then again, if you can not come down to our office here Cotonou Republic of Benin with the US$55 payment by yourself, then you will have to send the US$55 to my office through the Money-Gram Transfer Office to the name of the Account Agent Mr. Austin.

Meanwhile For all intense and purposes, I need you to please update me with the needed information bellow for me to crosscheck it properly to enable us program and process your ATM Visa Card for delivery as you wish;
INFORMATION NEEDED FOR ATM CARD PROCESSING & DELIVERY

YOUR FULL NAME(S) AS WOULD REFLECT ON YOUR CARD -
FULL ADDRESS (SAFE FOR THE DELIVERY OF YOUR CARD) -
MOBILE CELL NUMBER (Compulsory) -
TEL NUMBER (Optional) -
COUNTRY -
CITY -
PROFESSION -
BANK NAME -
ACCOUNT NAME -
ACCOUNT # -
ROUTING # -
SWIFT CODE -
BANK EMAIL -
BANK TEL –

Finally I would kindly ask you to please get back to me immediately as to know your travel arrangements when you will be traveling down here to our head office to clear your ATM Card as everything about this payment has been officially scheduled so therefore I would need your full cooperation if this transaction must be successful as it is highly important that you keep this transaction confidential as possible, do have a nice day.

Thank You,
MR. DONA NELSON
Director Payment Operations
BIGMIRE BANK INT' BENIN REPUBLIC

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