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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "atm payment department" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • "swift card payment center" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • "card center will send you an atm card" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • zenithbankplc1982@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: johnmark3@freenet.de
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:01:51 +0100
Subject: CONTACT ATM PAYMENT CENTER FOR YOUR $850.000.00USD


Goodday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,

NOW WE HAVE ARRANGED YOUR PAYMENT OF (
USD$850.000.00) EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS
THROUGH SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTER ASIA PACIFIC, THIS CARD CENTER WILL
SEND YOU AN ATM CARD WHICH YOU WILL USE TO WITHDRAW YOUR MONEY IN ANY
ATM MACHINE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, BUT THE MAXIMUM IS ONE THOUSAND,
FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS PER DAY.
SO IF YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE
YOUR FUND IN THIS WAY,PLEASE LET ME KNOW BY CONTACTING FINANCIAL BANK
ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT AND ALSO SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS LISTED
BELOW.

1.FULL NAME.............................
2.ADDRESS WERE YOU
WANT THEM TO SEND THE ATM CARD..........................
3.PHONE AND FAX
NUMBER.....................................................
4.YOUR AGE
AND CURRENT
OCCUPATION..........................................
5.ATTACH COPY OF
YOUR
IDENTIFICATION.......................................
HOWEVER,KINDLY
CONTACT THE BELOW PERSON WHO IS IN POSSITION TO RELEASE YOUR ATM PAYMENT
CARD.
REV DR.MATHEW Obi DIRECTOR,
ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT

EMAIL:(zenithbankplc1982@gmail.com)

THE ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER HAS
BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT YOUR PAYMENT AND YOU HAVE TO STOP ANY FURTHER
COMMINUCATION 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-0411) SO YOU HAVE TO
INDICATE THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE CARD CENTER BY USING IT AS YOUR
SUBJECT.
REGARDS
JOHN MARK

DEPARTMENT

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