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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: "Inter Switch Verve Limited" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drtunde.smith001@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:09:12 +0100
Subject: (I.M.F WARNING) Help Stop Cyber Crime!!!??



DIRECTOR FRAUD VICTIMS/Stop Contacting Those People They Are Non Officials
RE:PAYMENT COMPENSATION OF /USD $2.2,000,000
REF/PAYMENT CODE: /UN/US/FGN/EU, /$2.2,000,000
Directors Name: Sir Tunde Smith
Company's Name: Inter Switch Verve Limited
drtunde.smith001@gmail.com


ATTENTION: SIR/MADAM,

RE: UNITED NATIONS/NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT/AMERICAN GOVERNMENT/THE EUROPEAN
UNION 2000/2011 FRAUD VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.



Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations
whom have not yet receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes
those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud
Monitory Unit we have also noticed that over the past, you have been
transacting with some imposters and fraudsters whom have been impersonating,
like of Prof. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza,
Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young
of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some
imposters claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.IMF



The Cyber Crime Division of the IMF gathered information from the Internet
Crime Complaint Center (ICCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint
Center (IFCC) of how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these
imposters. As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop communication
with any one not referred to you by us


We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment
totaling $$2.2,000,000 be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card
with a maximum withdrawal limit of $5,000 a day which is powered by
MasterCard and can be used anywhere in the world were you see a MasterCard
Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM). We have advised that this should
be the only way at which you are to receive your payment because it’s more
guaranteed, since over $5 billion was lost on fake checks in the year 2008.

Secondly, you are hereby advice to stop dealing with some non-officials in
the bank and also couriers as this is an illegal act and will have to stop
if you so wish to receive your payment immediately. After the board meeting
held at our headquarters, we have resolved in finding a solution to your
problem, and as you may know, we have arranged your payment through our
SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTER in Europe, America and Asia Pacific Amsterdam,
which is then instruction given by our president, Goodluck Jonathan (GCFR)
Federal Republic of Nigeria.


We guarantee 100% receipt of your payment, because we have perfected
everything in regards to the release of your $2.2,000,000 States Dollars to
be 100% risk free and free from any hitches as it’s our duty to protect
citizens of the United States of America And also Other Countries. (This is
as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owed
to citizens of American which includes Inheritance, Contract,
Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared for the betterment of the current
economic status of the nation and its citizens as he has always believed
“Our Time for Change has come” because “Change can happen”).



Below are few list of tracking numbers you can track from FEDEX SAFE
HANDLERS COURIER COMPANY website to confirm people like you who have
received their Inter Switch Verve MasterCard Payment successfully.

Receiver's Name : SANDRA DEEPSHIKA : FEDEX TRACKING #: 876752920320
Receiver's Name : SRI S.GARIISAPARTH : FEDEX TRACKING #: 876752918904
Receiver's Name : KENNETH COLE : FEDEX TRACKING #: 874151947125
Receiver's Name : WALTER SCOTT : FEDEX TRACKING #: 874151947103
Receiver's Name : KENNETH THOMPSON : FEDEX TRACKING # 874151947125

This card center will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw
your money in an ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum is
($5,000.00) Five Thousand Us Dollars per transaction. So, if you like to
receive your fund this way, $5,000 usd for you to withdraw for a day and
each transaction is $ 5,000 usd minimum which you have to withdraw is $5,000
usd for one working day also be informed that the total amount in the SWIFT
ATM CARD is $2.2,000,000 Million United State of America Dollars.

PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION SO THE DELIVERY MANAGER CAN START ARRANGING YOUR
SWIFT CARD ON YOUR NAME IMMEDIATELY

(1)Your Full Name:
(2)Your Address where you want the payment center to send your ATM CARD.:
(3)Phone and Fax Number
(4)Age:
(5)Occupation:
(6)Your Nearest International Air Port in your City of residence:
(7)Company Name:


We shall be expecting to receive your information’s from you to verify and
commence delivery of your awarded ATM card, you have stop any further
communication with anybody or office. On this regards, do not hesitate to
contact me for more details and direction, and also please do update me with
any new development.


Thanks for your co-operation.


Best Regards,

Directors Name: Sir Tunde Smith
Company's Name: Inter Switch Verve Limited
drtunde.smith001@gmail.com


Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to
be in possession of your Inter Switch Verve MasterCard, you are hereby
advice only to be in contact with Sir Dr Tunde Smith) of the Inter Switch Verve
MasterCard center who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your
payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office via the
above fax number so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop cyber crime.

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