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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)
  • "high court" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "federal high court" (This court is often mentioned in '419' scams to give the victim a reason why he/she should send thousands of dollars to the scammers. A 'Federal High Court' exists in Germany and Nigeria, but not in other countries, such as the UK, Spain, Netherlands, Senegal, Benin, South Africa or other countries where fake lawyers in scams often claim to be based. )
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• 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.
  • +22993696020 (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.
  • oceanic_bank_plcbenin012@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: simeonjulius@freenet.de
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:11:20 +0200
Subject: Good day ,


Good day ,
I have been waiting for you since to come down here and
pick your bank draft but did not hear from you since that time then i
went and deposited the $850.000, usd draft/cheque in the bank.We have
arranged your payment 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.


Kindly contact the below person who is in possition to release your
ATM
Payment Card.
Send your information which they will use to send the
card to you.

1) Your full name
2)Your home address were you them to
send the atmcard
3)Current occupation
4)Age
5)Your current home
telephone number/mobile phone number
6)A Copy of your
identification
However, kindly contact the below person who is in
position to release
your atm card.
OCEANIC BANK PLC FOREIGN OPERATION
DIRECTOR.
DR REV. MIKE LARRY Director,
ATM Payment Department OCEANIC
BANK PLC BENIN REPUBLIC(OBB)
Phone number +229 93696020
Email:
(oceanic_bank_plcbenin012@yahoo.fr)


I have paid for the processing
and delivery charges.the only money that
your are going to pay to them
is only $103 dollars which they will use
to obtain the affidevit of
onwership from the federal high court of
Benin Republic.

Try to
contact them as soon as possible to quicken the processing of
your card
before your draft gets expired .
Let me know as soon as you receive
your card. Wait for your respond
and your Urgent Call.

Thanks
Simeon
Julius

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