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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: Albert George <dep.@trad.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Albert George <dept.foreignaffairs@citromail.hu>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 07:35:13 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Credit-Alert? Wire Transfer Notification

Dear Holder,

Successful release order to your incomes and Warmest congratulate to your success and patience, the FUNDS has been posted, Submit your shipping details to DHL.PARCELORDER@GMAIL.COM you can now received Today Or Wednesday as you can meet up because audit report that you have had difficult times to check the posting of other credit card that were postponed by some dubious officials. Therefore, we advise you to stop any further communicating with any correspondence outside this office to enable you received without spending more

Note..This is a credit card not a Debit Card, your expected fund in amount of($3,850,000,00USD) We do not keep customer's card beyond seven (7) working days after is been ready, contact and Verify Your nearest Airport to your address location / A copy of your international passport or any other means of identification as throw consignee, once you received update me with A phone Number where i can text you your #pin number by SMS because the Bank says it will be there in 72hrs from now, package order with DHL No: is (#2001567-DHX) I recommend you to be quick and avoid delay, DHL has info us that they charge extra $25 for demurral if any failure to ship today

Congratulation and spend wisely?


Albert George
Customer relation officer
Credit-Alert@atmcreditcard

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