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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22993863747 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • atm_payment_centre1960@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: johnmark3@freenet.de
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:13:09 +0200
Subject: You Have A package: Contact ATM Payment Center Via email


ATTENTION: SIR/MADAM,

NOW WE HAVE ARRANGED YOUR PAYMENT OF
($800,000,00) HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS THROUGH SWIFT CARD PAYMENT
CENTER DEPT HERE IN OUR BANK, 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 ($1,500) 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 NUMBER
.................................
4.YOUR AGE
................
5.CURRENT OCCUPATION
............................
6.ATTACH COPY OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION
.......... ...............
HOWEVER, KINDLY CONTACT THE BELOW PERSON WHO
IS IN POSSITION TO RELEASE YOUR ATM PAYMENT CARD.
REV DR. JAMES CLEE
DIRECTOR,
ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT
FINANCIAL BANK BENIN.
MOBILE: +229
93-863-747,
EMAIL: atm_payment_centre1960@yahoo.dk

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 THE CODE OF CONDUCT, WHICH IS (ATM-0411)
SO YOU HAVE TO INDICATE THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE ATM DEPT CENTER IN
THIS FINANCIAL BANK BY USING IT AS YOUR SUBJECT.

REGARDS,

MR. JOHN
MARK
DIRCETOR OF FINANCIAL BANK PLC
COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC



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