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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: "United Bank of Africa" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <williamsrichard0037@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 00:54:30 -0400
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS KINDLY REPLY TO THE ATM OFFICER

Attention Beneficiary,

Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue
payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling,Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have noticed that you have been
transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Mr.Godwin Emefiele of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick
Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank, Anderson,none officials of UBA Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some
impostors claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information

from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) on how

some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these

impostors. As a result of this, we hereby advise you to

stop communication with any one not referred to you by

us. We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of

Finance that your payment totaling $2,900,000.00(Two

Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars) will be

released.To redeem your funds, you are hereby advised to

contact the ATM Card Center via email for their

requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of

Payment, Meanwhile, a woman came to my office this

morning with an application for transfer of the fund

into her account on your behalf, claiming to be

yournrepresentative.
Here are the information's she submitted for the

transfer of your fund to her bank account.Name MRS.

DORIS MORISON.

Bank name: WACHOVIA BANK, New-York.

Account number: 6503809428.

Please, do re-confirm to this office as a matter of

urgency if this woman is truly from you as this office

will not be held responsible for paying your fund into

wrong account. Your ATM MASTER CARD will be deliver to

your address through courier delivery services within 24

hours.

BELOW ARE YOUR ATM CARD DATA :

AMOUNT CREDIT : USD$5.900.000.00 MILLION
YOUR ATM CARD ACCOUNT # : 4848422799442698
CARD LIMIT PER A DAY : USD$10,000
EXPIRING DATE : 28/04/2023


Mr.Williams Richard (ATM Card Center Director)
Central Bank of Nigeria
Central Business District,
Cad astral Zone, federal
Capital Territory,Nigeria.

ATM Card Center Director Mr.Williams Richard
Email: williamsrichard0037@yahoo.com


Do contact MR Williams Richard of the ATM Card Center

via his contact details above and furnish him with your

details aslisted below:

FULL NAMES: __________________________________
DELIVERY ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD: __________________
SEX: _______________
DATE OF BIRTH: __________________
OCCUPATION: __________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER: _____________________
EMAIL ADDRESS: _____________________


AfterWhich the delivery of your ATM card will be

effected to your designated home address without any

further

delay.

Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or

offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM card,

you

are hereby advice only to be in contact

with Mr Williams Richard of the ATM card center who is

the rightful person to deal with in regards to your

payment and

forward any emails you get from impostors

to this office so we could act upon it immediately. Help

stop cyber crime.


UNTED BANK OF AFRICA
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.


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