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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: "PETER" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <anticorruptcommission@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 19:15:50 +0530
Subject: RE: IRREVOCABLE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT,

Dear Sir/Ma,

Your contact email was given to this office in respect of your total inherited/Contract Sum $3.5 Million USD owed to you which you have hailed to claim because of either non-compliance of official processes or Because of your not believing reality of your genuine payment.

We wish to bring to you the solution to this problem. Right now we have arranged your payment through our Swift Card Payment Centers, That is the latest instruction from Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS)
Dear Sir,
Please find the particulars of mine as wanted.
1. Full name
2. Phone and Fax number
3. Address where you want ATM Card to be sent to
4. Your age and current occupation
5. Attach copy of your identification Scanned



This Card Center will send to you an ATM DEBIT Card which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world, so if you like to receive our fund in this way, please let us know by contacting us back on this contact:

Mr.Jerry Kumar,
ATM Payment Department State Bank of India International
Email:{ hdapro@zh8844.com } And also send the following information as listed below.

We have been mandated by the ECOWAS Parliament to issue out US$3.500,000 payment for this year 2014. Also for your information, you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment.

Note that because of impostors we hereby issued you our Code of Conduct, which is (ATM-1031), so you have to indicate this code when contacting the ATM Card Center by using it as your subject.

Waiting for your expedite response.

Yours in Service,
DR MRS GRACE PETER
international Settlement Dept.
State Bank of India International Plc.

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