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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: Economical Financial Crime Togo <togorepubliceconomicalfinancia@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:35:32 -0700
Subject: YOUR ATM CARD PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

Attn: Dear Customer, I have been planning on how to get things being
in order to you. Right now everything has been completed and this is
to let you know that I have finalized with the bank manager, to credit
your ($3,900,000.00USD) to an ATM VISA CARD. So your inherited funds
of ($3,900,000.00USD) has been converted and credited to an ATM VISA
CARD. This is to bring to your notice that I have paid the
re-activation fee and the delivery of your ATM VISA CARD.

I paid it because the ATM Card worth of $3,900,000.00USD will expire
soon and when it expires, the whole money will go into Federal
Government treasury account in my country here, so because of that I
decided to help you pay off the money so that the ATM Card fund will
not expire, and I’m convinced that when you receive your ATM VISA Card
that you must pay me back all my money and even compensate me for
helping you. Now I want you to contact the ATM card office with your
home /office address that you prefer for the delivery to be made so
that they can deliver your ATM Visa Card to your designated address in
your country without any delay.

Like I stated earlier, the delivery charges has been paid but I did
not pay their official keeping fees because they refused. They
refused, the reason is that they do not know when you are going to
contact them and the demurrage might have increased. They told me that
their keeping fee is $25 per day, while I deposited it Saturday last
week. Below is the Contact Information of the ATM officer in charge,

Contact Person: Mr. William Betha Office Email:
( ubaheadofficegeneral1@gmail.com )

Phone number: +2348120920231 Contact them today to avoid increase of
their keeping fees and let me know once you receive your ATM Visa
card.

Thanks and remain bless
Regards. Mr Stephen Bakken

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