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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: "Mrs. Linda James" <koutonalphonse@gmail.com>
Reply-To: diplomateagent76@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2022 16:20:47 -0800
Subject: Dear Beneficiary

Dear Beneficiary

This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of
your fund transfer through bank Online system, we have credited your
total sum of $16.500,000.00 Legitimate USD into an ATM VISA card, and
we have paid the delivery fee of your ATM card to you, we paid it
because your ATM card worth $16.500,000.00 USD which we have
registered for deliver, has less than 17 days to expire in the custody
of the EMS Courier Company and when it expires, the money will go into
federal government treasury account.

For that we decided to help you pay off the money so that your ATM
card will not expire, because we trust that when you receive this your
ATM card, definitely you must pay us back and even compensate us for
helping you.

Like we stated earlier, the delivery charges has been paid ,therefore
the only money you are advice to send to them is their official
security keeping fees of $50 dollar.
You can buy iTunes card or Google play card
Like I stated earlier, the crediting re-activation, delivery and the
company registration charges has been paid by me, but i did not pay
their official security 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 demurrage might have increased by then, They told me that
their official security keeping fees is $50.00, and I deposited it
Friday being 6TH of march 2022.therefore you should contact them with
the below contact information; Company name; EMS Courier Company
Service.

Company Name: Ems Courier Company
Email: diplomateagent76@gmail.com

Logistic Manager: Isacc Morgan

Try to contact them today and also send them the official security
keeping charge to avoid increasing of their fees and let me know once
you receive your ATM CARD.

Contact them with your full information requested below;

Your Full Name;............
Your Country;.....................
Your Residence Home Address;......
A Copy of Your Identification.....
Your Direct Phone;................
Age/Sex;..........................

Try to indicate all this codes to them because it will prove that you
are the rightful person that own the ATM card deposited in their
custody.

Shipment Code AWB :66xPF,
ATM Card Registered Code No xgt822:
Security Code sctc:8001FhX:951:
Transaction Code 251:cstc:101:009150:
Certificate Deposit code: sctc:XXYun.xxBBiv:78:06
Depositor: Mrs. Linda James
Manager of UBA Bank Plc

This is to avoid wrong delivery.

Yours sincerely,
Depositor: Mrs. Linda James

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