419 scam: <ttt@gmail.com> CONTACT ATM CARD DEPARTMENT TO RECEIVE YOUR CARD

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "atm payment department" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
- "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)
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.
- a.carddepartment@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <ttt@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <a.carddepartment@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:56:00 -0400
Subject: CONTACT ATM CARD DEPARTMENT TO RECEIVE YOUR CARD

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
around.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(a.carddepartment@yahoo.fr ) ask them to send you the sum of three
million nine hundred thousand us dollars ( $3.900.000.00) 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 seven Thousand five hundred 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:
Mr.Don Wood,Director, ATM payment department INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC
BENIN REPUBLIC.
Emails:( a.carddepartment@yahoo.fr )

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.

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.

Best Regards,
Mr. George Udo.

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