419 scam: "ATM Customer Care"<contact@sender.com> Attention: ATM MasterCard Beneficiary

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- ",000,000" (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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- mike.johnson01@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ATM Customer Care" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mike.johnson01@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 05:20:22 +0400
Subject: Attention: ATM MasterCard Beneficiary

ATM Maestro MasterCard /Asia
UK & Western European Operation
TestLink Services Ltd
No. 1 Factory Road
Upton Poole, Dorset
BH16 5SJ United Kingdom

Attention: ATM MasterCard Beneficiary

We wish to officially notify you once again of your status via your email address as our previous letter to your home address mailbox was returned undelivered. Your cash bonus of USD$ 4,000,000 (Four Million Thousand United States Dollar) have been RELEASED and APPROVED for onward to you via our ATM MasterCard which you will use to withdraw cash at any ATMs SERVICE MACHINES where you see the MasterCard (or Maestro+/Cirrus+) sign/logo located in more than 22 million locations across 210 countries worldwide.

This amount of USD$ 4,000,000 (Four Million Thousand United States Dollaris cash bonus awarded to you from MasterCard Worldwide for your use of the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) recently. Maximum withdrawal limit per day is USD$ 9,500 (Nine Thousand, Five Hundred United States Dollar) Only.

If we have reached you this time as hopeful, endeavor to get back to us immediately to enable us commence the immediate delivery of your ATM MasterCard and ATM PIN NUMBER to your present home address.

The delivery process of your ATM MasterCard shall be concluded as soon as you have contacted the Officer in Charge of delivery as stated below:

Contact Person: (Mr Mike Johnson)
Officer in Charge ( Protocols, Handling and Delivery )
ATM MasterCard Asia/Pacific
UK & Western European Operation
Email: mike.johnson01@hotmail.com

Please provide him with the underlisted informations below as soon as possible;

1. Full Names
2. Delivery Address ( PRESENT HOME ADDRESS NOT P.O. Box )
3. Nationality / Present Location
4. Occupation
5. Phone Number(s)

Thanks for your cooperation and congratulations once again.

Yours in Service,

Sevdalina Turmanova
ATM Customer Care
United Kingdom.

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