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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: "Greg Rogers" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gregrogersde@tuta.io>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 10:24:51 -0700
Subject: beneficiary!!!





hello dear beneficiary!!!


during the joint meeting held by u.s. district attorneys united states and ad-hoc executive committee on 2018/19 empowerment program, ; we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by the corrupt officials who have been using your payment transaction as an avenue to extort bogus fees from you. to forestall this, your full payment of $10,800,000.00 usd (ten million eight hundred united state dollars) has been irrevocably released to you in the form of atm master card and this will enable you have instant access of your fund.based on our instruction; payment of us$10,800,000.00 usd have been activated in an atm master card in your favor through federal reserve bank this atm master card

will enable you start making withdrawal of your fund at any arm machine around you, we have taken this measure in order to avoid any unnecessary lapses or delay during the process of delivering the atm master card to your address.this fund includes :
(1) every foreign contractors and victims of different natural disasters that may have not received his or her fund,
(2)people that had an unfinished transaction,
(3) people who have not received their inheritance fund,
(4)lottery winning, or international businesses that failed due to inability of government in some part of world.

it is my pleasure to inform you that atm master card number: 8731 2001 8747 3215 have been approved in your favor, the atm card value is $10,800,000 usd (ten million eight hundred thousand united state dollars) you are advised that a maximum withdrawal value of $5,000.00 usd is permitted to withdrawal per day and are duly inter switch so you can make withdrawal at any atm locate center of your choice around the world.now your new payment, us government approval no; un5685p, white house approved no:wh44cv, reference no.-35460021, allocation no: 674632 password no: 339331,pin code no: 55674 and your certificate of merit payment no: 103, released code no: 0763; immediate federal reserve bank telex confirmation no: -1114433;secret code no: xxtn013, having received these vital payment number, therefore you are qualified now to received and confirm your atm card with our delivery department within the next 48hrs.

all the arrangements related to your awaited fund worth $10,800,000.00 usd have already been made, we are therefore required to procure indemnity certificate and then certificate of ownership from attorney general which will be obtained in your name the certificate will cost you $150 each which is the only fee you will be required to pay for us to effect the delivery of your fund before 48hrs

your atm master card will be delivered to your home address immediately the charges as stated above is cleared the tracking information of the package containing your atm master card will be made available to you immediately the charge is sent to our cashier department for your delivery to be processed and completed before 48 hours.register with us with the payment information or proof of payment that the fee is sent with the following information in our office

regards
greg rogers
fund transfer department

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