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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: SIMON FRANK <ww.@gmail.com>
Reply-To: SIMON FRANK <simonfrank1520@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 06:37:15 +0900 (JST)
Subject: BNP PARIBAS PRIVATE BANK



BNP PARIBAS PRIVATE BANK (BNPP PRIVATE BANK)
DIRECTOR OF PAYMENT ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER
BNP PARIBAS BANK, LONDON

Sir,

RE-YOUR PAYMENT BY A SPECIAL MICRO-CHIP ATM MASTER CARD

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your payment file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your inheritance funds.

Secondly, you are hereby advised to stop dealing with some on-officials in the bank 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, Africa and Asia Pacific, which is the instruction given to us by Financial Service Authority United Kingdom.

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 ($20,000.000) Thousand U.S Dollars per transaction. And the total amount that is in the card is $5.5million (USD) So, if you like to receive your fund this way, reply to this office immediately for the issuing of your (ATM) CARD.

(1) Your Full Name
(2) Address where you want the payment center to send your ATM CARD.
(3) Phone And Fax Number We shall be expecting to receive your information you have to stop any further communication with anybody or office apart from this office of the residency.

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.
SIMON FRANK
Director of ATM Payment.
BNP Paribas Private Bank
(“BNPP Private Bank”)
Address. 10 Harewood Avenue
London, Greater London NW1 6AA

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