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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: "EDWARD PATRICK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <EDWARDPATRICKBNK@YANDEX.COM>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:00:28 -0000
Subject: RE:ATM CARD PAYMENT TO ALL BENEFICIARY BY MASHREQ BANK .

Dear Beneficiary

My name is Dr.Edward Patrick,the deputy governor of Central Bank of Egypt.I was mandated by the President Federal Republic in conjunction with the Federal Executive Council (FEC), the

Senate Committee on Foreign Debts Reconciliation and Implementation Panel on Contract/inheritance/compensation funds to complete all the unpaid

Contract/inheritance/lottery fund. You are required as a matter of urgency to reconfirm your information including your name, phone number and your address for verification and immediate payment within 24 hours.

Due to these effect we found out that there is a woman called Mrs Army Ellen Alberts trying to claims these fund on your behalf ie we have all her details which we later turn to authorities for proper investigation.

To this effect, the sum of TEN MILLION, SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$10.7m) have been approved for you. I wish to inform you that all matters relating to the release of this payment is now under my control and supervision. This development has become necessary due to the activities of unpatriotic government/CBE

officials and impostors who keep on frustrating every effort to settle our clients by making requests for unauthorized fees and levies from them.


We apologize for any delay you might have encountered in the past, your payment is now 100% Guaranteed.

Here are the types of accounts we operates which will be listed below for your perusal but mind you sir/madam you will be paying for the account activation of $85 usd which i will provide you with a User name and Pass word to login into your designated bank account or Mobile banking.


Kindly choose from these three modes of payment (wire transfer, diplomatic cash payment and ATM card).

WEBSITES: http://www.mashreqbank.com/uae/en/electronic-channels/mashreq-online-banking .

YOUR NAME
YOUR HOME ADDRESS
YOUR ID COPY
YOUR COUNTRY
YOUR AGE/SEX
DIRECT PHONE NUMBER
YOUR OCCUPATION
FEDEX OFFICE IN YOUR COUNTRY.

Contact Email:Edwardpatrickbnk@yandex.com
Best Regards,
Dr.Edward Patrick
Deputy Governor CBE.

NB: KINDLY NOTE THAT SOME PEOPLE (FRAUDSTERS) HAVE STARTED MAKING FORGERY OF MY GOOD NAME.

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