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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: Mrs Daniella Kyle <mrsdaniellakyle6@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsdaniella.kyle@yandex.com
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 18:13:08 -0700
Subject: ATM Visa card compensation, Thanks for your past effort

Hello dear,how are you, hope all is well with you?

It is a very joyful thing to break this good news to you though i
really missed you because you gave me the faith to carry on,you really
brought hope to my hopeless situations,so i made a vow to myself that
even if you fail to complete the transaction i must surely compensate
you.

And i want to inform you that i have successfully move to Paraguay
where i am living now with my partner who was able to assist me, but
due to the willingness and acceptance you showed during the course of
my pains i have compensated you and show my gratitude to you with the
sum of 750,000.00 Seven Hundred and fifty Thousand US Dollars) Please
accept this little gift because it is a gift from my heart,i issued
the check and i instructed the bank to role the fund on ATM card for
security reason,you can use the ATM card to withdrawing money from any
ATM machine world wide with a maximum of US$10,000 daily.

This vow i made to myself about compensating you has been in my mind
and I want to fulfills it to you though I did not tell you what was in
my mind, the bank said that you can receive the card and use it
anywhere in the world.

Contact the Global ATM Alliance direct with this bellow information.

Name: ........... ....... Global ATM Visa Card Alliance
Office Address; ...... 01BP 23 Rue Des Grands Moulins.Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Email Address: ..... maastercarddeptme20@yahoo.com
Telephone: ........... +226 65 753436
Officer In charge: Dr.Koko pedro-c

Ask them to send you the ATM card and the pin code of the ATM card
that i gave to you as compensation, So feel free and get in touched
direct with the ATM office and instruct them where to send you the
ATM card so that you can start to withdraw the money.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share
the joy after all the sufferings at that time, at the moment, I am
very busy here because of the investment projects which I and my new
partner are having at hand because I want
to finalize everything before the end of the year

I had giving instruction to ATM Visa card office on your behalf to
release the ATM card which i gave to you as compensation.

Therefore feel free to get in touch with them and they will send the
ATM card for you to withdraw the money without delay.

Thank you
Mrs Danilla Kyle

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