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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: "Mr.Steven Williams" <nita.allpros@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mranthonykevin@outlook.com
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 03:14:09 -0800
Subject: YOUR ATM MASTER CARD

Dear,

This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of
your fund transfer through the Bank network, we have credited your
total of $3.7Million usd valid fund into an ATM MASTER CARD or Visa
Card and I have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery of the ATM
Card To you I paid it because the ATM Card worth of $3.7Million usd
which I have registered it delivery yesterday has less than 21 days to
expire in the custody of the UPS Company 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.

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
We need the below details from you.

1. Your Full name, ________________
2. Your home Address, _____________
3. Your telephone number, _________
4. A copy of your ID, _____________

Remember you will pay for the security keeping fee $185 for the
delivery.to be made to you.

Below is the Contact Information of the ATM, Express Customer Service
Director Mr. Anthony Kevin
Email Address; ( mranthonykevin@outlook.com )

Contact them today and also send them the security official keeping
charge to avoid an 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.
Mr.Steven Williams,

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