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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: LOUSE DEJOY <westbtra@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dhlservice658@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 22:02:55 -0800
Subject: YOUR ATM CARD.

This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of
your fund transfer through the Money Gram network, we have credited
your total sum $2,900,000 USD in ATM MASTER CARD and I have paid the
re-activation fee and the delivery of the ATM Card to your address.

I paid it because the ATM Card worth of $2,900,000 USD , which I have
registered it for delivery yesterday has less than 25 days to expire
in the custody of the DHLCompany and when it expires, the money will
go into Federal Government treasury account. With that we decided to
help you pay off the money so that the ATM Card will not expire,
because I trust that when you receive your ATM Card definitely you
must pay me back my money and even compensate me for helping you.

Now I want you to contact Mr Charles Adu of bank of Ghana at:
dhlservice658@gmail.com with your current address you desire the
delivery to be made so that they can deliver your ATM Card to your
designated address without any delay.

Like I stated earlier, the crediting re-activation, delivery and the
company registration charges has been paid by me, but we did not pay
their official keeping fees since they refused, they refused and the
reason is that they do not know when you are going to contact them and
the demur-rage might have increased by then, They told me that their
keeping fees is $50 per day only, and I deposited it on the 20th
of September 2021.

Below is the Contact Information of the bank of Ghana
Director Charles Adu ;dhlservice658@gmail.com
Phone number +2349012581342

Contact them today and also send them the security official keeping
charge to avoid increase of their fees and let me know once you
receive your ATM card, Important Notice, your ATM CARD package was
registered as a gift so that the diplomatic Agent will not know the
content of your package okay.

Regards.
Mrs. Mary Ben

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