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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: "Cambodia Asia Bank (CAB)" <dr.mrs.jennifer.obodo@gmail.com>
Reply-To: infocambodianasasaianbankltd@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:29:47 +0100
Subject: Delivery of Your ATM (MASTER) Card.

Cambodia Asia Bank LTD (CAB)
4th Floor, #216B,
Preah Norodom Blvd
Sangkat Tonle Bassac
Khan Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh - Cambodia.

Good day dear,

Please don't be surprise about this email that we are sending to you,
and you are about to receive now. We found your name and email address
from United State chamber of commerce, when we are enrolling our email
balloting 2021/2022 year. Be informed that after our email balloting
every year, the government of Cambodia in conjunction with the apex
bank, has formalized arrangements to commence a payment to you, as one
of the luckiest person in our email enrollment, to send you a payment
of $US1.5M ( One Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars
only) to you through this esteem bank, by Atm master card.

By this new payment arrangement, you are to enjoy your payment which
has already been approved to be loaded into an MASTER (ATM) card and
delivered to you at your preferred destination in your country. The
ATM card will access your funds from any ATM in over 170 countries and
can be used at POS globally.

So go ahead and furnish us with the following information below for
accurate delivery without mistakes:

1. Your full name in details.........................................
2. Delivering address P.O.BOX not accepted............................
3. Occupation.........................................................
4. Telephone number...................................................
5. Age................................................................


The receipt of the above-listed requirements by our Atm master Card
Unit assures safe delivery of your loaded ATM card to your destination
within 72hrs.

Take note that as soon as your parcel is on transit, your tracking
number will be forward to you so that it will enable you to track your
package over there and know when it will get to your address. Let us
repeat again, try and reconfirm your delivery information as soon as
you receive this email to avoid any further delay.

Accept our congratulations.

Mr. Fatai Po.
Operation manager
Atm Card Department Cambodia Asia Bank Ltd (CAB).

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