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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: David Alvaro <tuoi8554@gmail.com>
Reply-To: atmmasterc46@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 01:03:51 -0700
Subject: DEAR BENEFICIARY,YOUR ATM VISA CARD IS NOW READY FOR PICK UP.

GOOD NEWS,

I David Alvaro Director general of United States Postal Service, Postal
service company (USPS) We have been waiting for you to contact us for
your parcel that has been registered with us By IMF for shipment to
your residential address. We thought that the sender gave you our
contact details. It may interest you to know that a letter is also
added to your parcel.

However, we cannot quote the content to you via email for privacy
reasons. We understand that the content of your parcel itself is an
ATM VISA CARD and after our scanning of the ATM VISA CARD it contains
$9,500,000.00, we scan this your ATM CARD due to your delaying in contacting
us, So kindly get in touch with us asap with your requested information which
was used to registered it by the IMF to our office and also for we to
be sure that we are in contact with the rightful owner of this ATM CARD.
Kindly get in touch with us asap with your full details for a security
reasons although we have your information.

1]Name--------------
2]Address-----------
3]Tell--------------
4]valid ID or driver license---

Here is your ATM VISA CARD information you can't use this your ATM card
for now until we deliver it to your home address for a security reason.
1]ATM CARD NUMBER: 4342-5801-5196-5506
2]EXPIRE DATE: 10/24
3]CCV: 713

For more details contact us through this email
(approvedatmvisacard@gmail.com )

Yours Faithfully,
David Alvaro
Director General of United States Postal Service
Office Address 5675 CAROLINA BEACH RD WILMINGTON, NC 28412-3629

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