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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: Intercontinental Bank Plc <intercontinentalbanqbenin@outlook.com>
Reply-To: Intercontinental Bank Plc <intercontinentalbankbranchbeninhq@mail.bg>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:16:33 +0900 (JST)
Subject: PAYMENT BY ATM CARD

Intercontinental Bank Plc
Cotonou Benin Republic.
Notification of payment by atm card

Attention beneficiary,


We are hereby officially notifying you about the present arrangement to pay you your overdue compensation fund, contract and inheritance fund through (atm card) this arrangement was initiated/constituted by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund ,{IMF} due to fraudulent activities going on around the world. The World Bank introduced this payment arrangement as to enable all beneficiaries to receive their funds without any interference, this atm cards are powered by gold card worldwide. Please note that what we will be sending to you is an UBA bank master card which is accepted at over 900,000 atm centers in over 210 countries worldwide, this UBA bank master card will be loaded with a total sum of $950.000.00USD (Nine hundred and Fifty thousand dollars) which is the total amount due to you for payment now and after this one is cleared another will be paid in until your total funds and completely paid out.


In line with the withdrawal procedure of this atm master card, you are only allowed a daily withdrawal of not more than $10.000.00usd until all the funds are exhausted. The package shall be delivered to you and the delivery shall be done by FedEx Int'l courier express service and the charges associated with the delivery are $65usd and will be paid upfront to enable the processing of your atm card delivery. The package is coming from Cotonou republic of Benin and there for the fee must be paid to Benin by beneficiary to the FedEx Int’l courier company. In view of this you are advised to contact the director (IBB, IRD, and ATM) Dr. Richard Daniels now with your following information to enable him process your atm master card and also to register your atm card with the delivering courier to effect the shipment of your parcel today.

Contact Person: Dr. Richard Daniels

Reconfirm the following information to him for Security reason

1) Your full name:
2) Your receiving address:
3) Your telephone number:
4) Your profession:

The Sixty Five dollars is the last and only fee associated to this delivery of your package, so we urge you to cooperate as instructed and receive your package.


Best regards,
Mrs. Abigail Jones
Secretary intercontinental Benin Republic

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