419 scam: "Lucas Gill"<ccasals@vtr.net> RECEIVE YOUR ATM CARD

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Lucas Gill" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <002348181865796wumt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 19:54:35 -0700
Subject: RECEIVE YOUR ATM CARD

To your attention,

We write to inform you officially that the Board of Director of the Debt
Reconciliation Center,In conjunction with the Department of Homeland
Security,and The International Monetary Fund IMF is compensating all the
scam victims $2.7 Million USD, and your email address was found in the
scam victim's list.
This financial office has been mandated by the IMF to transfer your
compensation to you via ATM Master Card (Automated Teller Machine).

We need your information as where we will be sending the funds to you, such
as,

Receiver name:
Residential Address:
Country:
Phone number:
Your Age:
Your Sex:

Note that your payment file will be returned to the IMF within 72 hours
if we did not hear from you, this was the instruction given to us by the
IMF.

Thanks

Lucas Gill

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