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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: Office File <ajjtradingco01@outlook.com>
Reply-To: atmcenter162@outlook.com
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:10:10 +0100
Subject: CONTACT ATM DEPARTMENT FOR YOUR MASTER CARD.



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Attention Dear Friend,

This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of
your fund transfer through the western union network, we have credited
your total sum of 4.5millon valid fund into an ATM MASTER CARD and I
have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery of the ATM Card To
you, I paid it because the ATM Card worth of 4,500,000.00 which I have
registered for delivery yesterday has less than 16 days to expire in the
custody of the FedEx Company and when it expires, the money will go into
Federal Government treasury account.


With that we decided to help you pay off the money so that the ATM Card
will not expire, because I trust that when you receive your ATM Card
definitely you must pay me back my money and even compensate me for
helping you. I was calling the telephone number you provided then, but
unavailable to confirm if you still living in your formal address for
the registration of the ATM Card.


Now I want you to contact FedEx Express Delivery with your physical
address you desire the delivery to be made so that they can deliver
your ATM Card to your designate address without any delay.Like I stated
earlier, the crediting re-activation, delivery and the company
registration charges has been paid by me, but I did not pay their
official keeping fees since they refused, they refused and the reason is
that they do not know when you are going to contact them and the demur
rage might have increased by then, They told me that their keeping fees
is $89 per day only, and I deposited it yesterday being 02/10/2017


Below is the Contact Information of the FedEx, Express Customer Service
Director Mr Deeeic telephone number +22999808733 from ATM CARD , Email
Address online: {atmcenter162@outlook.com} Contact them today and also
send them the security official keeping charge to avoid increase of
their fees and let me know once you receive your ATM card,


Please,use this information to send the fee to western union


Receiver Name :Dominic Igwilo
Country Benin Republic
City- Potonovor,
Question A
Answer B
Sender Name and Mtcn ......
amount $89


Sender Name and Mtcn


Important Notice: Your ATM CARD package is rapped with pin code paper
together with the instructions from the issuing bank on how you will be
using the card to withdraw your fund daily and I registered it as gift
so that the diplomatic Agent will not know the content of your

package okay.
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