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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: "PASTOR MARK RICHARD" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <pastormarkrichard@yahoo.com.sg>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 21:00:09 -0300
Subject: YOUR ATM CARD IS READY TO BE DELIVERED

Read carefully,

The International Monetary Fund IMF and the World Bank is compensating all the scam victims $1.5Million United State Dollar, and your email address was found in the scam victim's list. This ATM card department office has been mandated by the IMF and the World Bank to transfer your compensation funds to you through an ATM CREDIT CARD to avoid any online fraud.



We hereby advice that you stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment. In-order to stop the internet fraudulent activities going on the internet today, the following agencies (ICPO-Interpol, Euro-Pol, FBI, Anti-Money Launder, Secret Service, EFCC,Australia Westpac Banking Corporation has taking measures to see that Fraud activities going on in the internet in Africa including fraudulent acts in the World Today are stopped and there is progress.



So we need your information as where we will be sending the ATM CARD, such as:

Receiver Full Name:------
Address:--------
Country:-------
Phone Number:-------
Occupation..........
Sex..................




IMPORTANT NOTE: Your payment files will be returned to the IMF within one week if we did not hear from you, this was the instruction given to us by the IMF.


Pastor Mark Richard
ATM Payment Department
ATM Card International Plc.
Direct Email:(pastormarkrichard7@gmail.com)
Phone Number: +1774-357-0412.


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