419 scam: "Mr.Ban Ki-Moon," <officemmeo8001@att.net> CONTACT ATM CARD DEPARTMENT

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "atm payment department" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
- "activation fee" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "huge amount of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "paymentatmcard09@yahoo.com.hk" (this email address looks like addresses used in "ATM SWIFT card" scams)
- "paymentatmcard09@yahoo.com.hk" (this email address looks like addresses used in "ATM SWIFT card" scams)
This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
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.
- paymentatmcard09@yahoo.com.hk (Yahoo, Hong Kong; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Ban Ki-Moon," <officemmeo8001@att.net>
Reply-To: paymentatmcard09@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 10:43:54 -0400
Subject: CONTACT ATM CARD DEPARTMENT

Dear Friend,

This is to inform you about my success in transfering your money into an ATM
master card to curtail the risk of carrying huge amount of money arround.We
are the people that coded this amount of money in the card and we are going to
tell you how to make use of it.Presently i'm out of the country for investing
my own part of the total money .

Meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me
in moving the cash despite that both of us could not make it.Now contact ATM
PAYMENT DEPARTMENT and their email address is(paymentatmcard09@yahoo.com.hk)
ask them to send you the sum of tow million five hundred thousand us dollars
( $2.500.000.00) in an ATM MASTER CARD

which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to
assist me in this matter.this card centre will send you an ATM card which you
will use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world,
the maximum is Five Thousand United State Dollars per day. I appreciated your
efforts at that time very much,So feel free and get in touched with the ATM
PAYMENT DEPARTMENT and instruct them on where to send your total share of the
money to you.

Therefore do not hesitate to contact INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC BENIN ATM payment
department centre and also re-confirm the following information as listed below:

1. Your full Name
2. Your Country
3.Your city
4.Your home address were you want them to send the ATM card
5. Phone number (private)
6. Your age and current occupation
7.Copy of your passport or id

Forward the above inforamation to:
Dr.Mike Williams ,Director, ATM payment department INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC
BENIN REPUBLIC.
Emails:(paymentatmcard09@yahoo.com.hk)

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy
together after all the sufferness at that time. In the moment, i am very busy
here investing with my new partner.Remember that you are going to pay a
reactivation fee of $95.00 only and it is for the reactivation of your card
against it's expire before the delivery is made.The reason for the
reactivation fee is that the account has been there for a long time while the
government was doing serious investigations on the right owner of the money
before this conclusion was made.

Finally, I have forwarded instructions to the DEPARTMENT to send the
Confirmable ATM MASTER CARD to you, so feel free to get in touch with the
DEPARTMENTand they will send the CARD to you without any delay once you send
them the $95.00.

Best Regards,
BARR. TITUS KOFFI

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