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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. JOHN JACKSON" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <atmunithandoveraz6d1h@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 13:53:13 +0100
Subject: XMAS BONUS IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND US$35.9 M ONLY VIA ATM VISA CARD

United Nation Organization
Information Section Unit.
760 United Nations Plaza,
New York, NY 10017, USA.
RE: DOCKET NO. OP 292.
Our Ref: UN/BKL/STB
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND US$35.9 M ONLY VIA ATM VISA CARD

Attention:

We wish to inform you that payment of USD$35.9 Million from the Federal Republic of Nigeria has been released and ready to be paid to you via ATM VISA CARD OR BANK TO BANK TRANSFER INSTALLMENT, and of which you will withdraw from any ATM Machine in any part of the world. The card is an OPEN ATM VISA CARD.

We have mandate Access Bank Nigeria Plc to issue an OPEN ATM VISA CARD and PIN which you will use to withdraw, but the maximum amount you can withdraw per day is US$20,000.00. You are strongly advice immediately to contact MR FRANKLIN MOORE he is the World Human Right Officer via his email address:( atmunithandoveraz6d1h@gmail.com ) and send him your information such as;

1) Your Full Name.
2) Your Contact Address
3) Your Occupation:
4) Your Age
5) Your Sex
6) Your Home Phone, Mobile/Cell Phone and fax Number.

Note That The OPEN ATM VISA CARD approval in your name has been sent to MR JOHN WILLIAMS the World Bank representative and he is waiting for your above information to enable him process and send you the CARD and PIN number without any delay. So make sure you contact him right now with your information and tell him that you received a message from the UNITED NATION, Instructing you to contact him for immediate release of your fund via OPEN ATM VISA CARD.

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE,
W e find out issues in the countries that are not reasonable to human like in terms of transfer, delivery ETC. Kindly Tell Or Inform Us how you want the money to be DELIVERED to you install-mentally or in full , As we have agreed to pay you, once you received the first payment, you can use money from it to Facilitate the DELIVERY OR TRANSFER of the rest Of your fund as you may want it.

By Concurring to the word TRANSFER / DELIVERY as par agreement of ACCESS BANK OFFICIALS during our officials meeting in payment to you, we have to TRANSFER / DELIVER TO YOU THROUGH URGENT TRANSFER CALCULATION RATIO, and you will have to choose from the transfer calculations of how you want your first payment to help you retrieve all your funds and here bellow is the transfer /delivery calculations as follows:--

A, If $2000 dollar can handle US $5 million dollars.
B, $1000 dollar will comfortably handle the sum of $2.5 Million dollars.
C, Then $500 dollar will also Handle $1.2 million dollars,
D, while $250 will also handle $500 thousand dollars.

Once your first $Million dollars is successfully DELIVERED, withdraw money from there to handle the rest DELIVERY OR TRANSFER of your total fund $35.9 million dollars. NOTE: Write the bank and tell them how much you have at hands as the Bank has CALCULATED for you on how much you will receive as first payments-by installment, Do not be shy to indicate or inform the bank the amount you have at hands (no proper-amount is so small to trigger installments-payment) Finally, We have chosen ACCESS BANK to release your fund to you, so you are THEREFORE advised to contact MR JOHN WILLIAMS through the Following information. ( accessbankrep@gmail.com )

Please we are very sorry for the plight you have gone through in the past. Thanks for adhering to this instruction and once again accept our congratulations!

Yours Sincerely,
MR. JOHN JACKSON
Public Information Officer.

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