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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-900) <info@James.com>
Reply-To: mr.JamesMark@07168.cn
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:41:12 +1000
Subject: DRAW 2011




DRAW 2011

The ATM CARD payment center,OCEANIC BANK
INTERNATIONAL PLC has been
mandated to issue out an ATM CARD value of
{$ 2.8 MILLION USD Only },to you
which you can use to withdraw your money in
any ATM machine in any part of
the world. You are advised to keep this
information confidentially away from the
public to avoid fraudulent claim (IMPORTANT)
pending of the delivery of your
ATM CARD to you.Note that because of
impostors,we hereby issued you our CODE OF
CONDUCT,which is (ATM-900) so you have to
indecate this when contact us
by using it as your subject.complete the form
below and send it to
EMAIL:(mr.JamesMark@07168.cn)
Telephone ::(+2348180485254)
(DIRECT-LINE)
mr.James Mark
(SEE BELOW)
CODE OF CONDUCT.....
NAME IN FULL....
DATE OF BIRTH....
AGE....SEX...
MARITIAL STATUS....
HOME ADDRESS....
NATIONALITY......
COUNTRY....
OCCUPATION..
POSITION.....
OFFICE ADDRESS....
TEL...MOBILE....
DECLARATION....I,Mr/Mrs................
do hereby declare that the
information given above,is correct to the best of
my knowledge and believe
thesame to be true. that you are to contact us
with the listed
details above within 7 working
days of this notification.




DRAW 2011

The ATM CARD payment center,OCEANIC BANK
INTERNATIONAL PLC has been
mandated to issue out an ATM CARD value of
{$ 2.8 MILLION USD Only },to you
which you can use to withdraw your money in
any ATM machine in any part of
the world. You are advised to keep this
information confidentially away from the
public to avoid fraudulent claim (IMPORTANT)
pending of the delivery of your
ATM CARD to you.Note that because of
impostors,we hereby issued you our CODE OF
CONDUCT,which is (ATM-900) so you have to
indecate this when contact us
by using it as your subject.complete the form
below and send it to
EMAIL:(mr.JamesMark@07168.cn)
Telephone ::(+2348180485254)
(DIRECT-LINE)
mr.James Mark
(SEE BELOW)
CODE OF CONDUCT.....
NAME IN FULL....
DATE OF BIRTH....
AGE....SEX...
MARITIAL STATUS....
HOME ADDRESS....
NATIONALITY......
COUNTRY....
OCCUPATION..
POSITION.....
OFFICE ADDRESS....
TEL...MOBILE....
DECLARATION....I,Mr/Mrs................
do hereby declare that the
information given above,is correct to the best of
my knowledge and believe
thesame to be true. that you are to contact us
with the listed
details above within 7 working
days of this notification.





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