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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: "mrpaulmonti@gmail.com" <mrsmabel_raymond2@aol.fr>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 04:18:42 -0500
Subject: ATM Card Number 4061730091760736


Attention,

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, Burkina Faso 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
($300.000,00 US Dollars) valid into an (ATM Card Number 4061730091760736).

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 code 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 number shall be delivered to you via courier
Service, depending your choice.

In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to contact the
agent in-charge (Mr. Paul Monti) Kindly look below to find appropriate contact
information:

CONTACT AGENT NAME: Mr. Paul Monti
Phone +229 99617807
Email: ( mrpaulmonti@gmail.com )



You will be required to e-mail him on his confidential E-MAIL Address ( mrpaulmonti@gmail.com ) with the following information:

YOUR FULL NAME:
YOUR AGE:
ADDRESS:
YOUR COUNTRY:
CITY:
DIRECT CONTACT PHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:

We advice you to stop all 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.

Yours in Services
Mrs Raymond.Mabel


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