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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: "Mr. Eric Moor" <oofice8@tim.it>
Reply-To: ericmoor5@outlook.com
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:57:05 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Dear Email Owner,

Dear Email Owner,

COMPENSATION FUNDS PAYMENT ORDER VIA ATM CARD

This is to inform you that we have been working towards the eradication of
fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa with the help of the Organization of
African Unity (OAU) United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and FBI.

We have been able to track down some scam artist in various parts of African
countries which includes (Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana and Senegal with
cote d'ivoire ) and they are all in Government custody now, they will appear at
International Criminal Court (ICC) soon for Justice.

During the course of investigation, they were able to recovered some funds from
these scam artists and IMF organization have ordered the funds recovered to be
shared among the 10 Lucky people listed around the World as a compensation.
This notice is been directed to you because your email address was found in one
of the scam Artists file and computer hard-disk while the investigation, maybe
you have been scammed. You are therefore being compensated with sum of $4.5M
valid into an (ATM Card Number 4848421013879602).

Since your email address is among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a
compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to be paid to you through ATM
VISA CARD and deliver to your postal address with the Pin Numbers as to enable
you withdrawal maximum of $5,000 on each withdrawal from any Bank ATM Machine
of your choice, until all the funds are exhausted.

The ATM Card with Security Pin Numbers shall be delivered to you using Express
Mail Service (DHL) .

The package is coming from Benin Republic. don't forget to reconfirm your
following information.

1. Your Full Name:

2. Address Where You want us to Send Your ATM Card

3. Cell/Mobile Number:

We advice you to stop all the communications with everyone regarding your
payment as we have short listed to deliver to you and now urge you to comply
and receive your ATM Card funds.

Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions while I wait to hear
from you today. You can contact me through this my alternative email address: (
ericmoor5@outlook.com )

Yours in Services
Mr. Eric Moor,

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