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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: FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE <walkeralbert699@gmail.com>
Reply-To: claimdept_fund@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 06:26:44 -0800
Subject: FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE (FIC)

FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE (FIC)
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
Annex Office: No: 793 York road Sunninghill Sandton Gauteng south African
Date: 3/09: 2022

Atten: Dear Fund beneficiary.
COMPENSATION FUNDS PAYMENT ORDERD VIA ATM CARD

This to inform you that, we have been working towards the eradication
of fraudsters and scan artists in Africa with the help of the
Organization of African unity (OAU) united nations (UN), European
union (EU) and the international monetary fund (IMF) and FBI. We have
been able to track down so many of the scan artist in various parts of
African countries which includes (Nigeria, republic of Benin, Ghana,
Cameroon, Senegal and Mali) and they are all in government custody
now, they will appear at international criminal court within the
present Month in (ICC) Hague (Netherlands) for criminal Fraud justice.

During the course of our investigations, we have been able to recover
so much money from these scan artists. The United nations Anti-crime
commission and the international monetary fund (IMF) have ordered the
money recovered from the scammers to be shared among 100 lucky people
around the world for compensation. This email/letter is been directed
to you because your email address was found in one the scam artists
file and computer hard-desk during our operation from the help of our
investigational term, maybe you have been scammed or not, you are
therefore being compensated with the sum of $278,000.00 USD Two
Hundred and Seventy-eight Thousand United State Dollars.

We have also arrested some of those who claim that they are
barristers, bank officials, lottery agents who has been sending you
SMS on your phone that you have won a lottery which does not exist.
Since your email address appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who
will received a compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to
be paid to you through ATM VISA CARD.

An ATM Visa Card will be issued in your name and your $278,000.00 USD
will be loaded into it, and deliver to your postal address with the
pin N umbers to your ATM CARD, as to enable you withdraw your funds
from any bank ATM machine worldwide.

To issues the ATM Visa card, you are therefore advised to contact the
accountant in charge of your payment, this is because the united
nations Anti-Crime Commission and the international monetary fund
(IMF) and the government has chosen them to payout all the
compensation funds to the 100 lucky beneficiaries, because the ATM
Visa card is a global payments technology that enables consumers,
businesses, financial institutions and governments to use digital
currency instead of cash and checks. Kindly contact the ATM Card
issuance department now with the below contact address.

ATM CARD DEPARTMENT
CONTACT PERSON: DR. FRANCISCO NAIDOO
REPUBLIC OF SOUTHH AFRICA
E-MAIL: claimdept_fund@hotmail.com

please Be warned, as the united nations Anti-Crime commission and the
international monetary fund (IMF) does not instruct ant other bank or
agent in this payment except (DR. FRANCISCO NAIDOO), whom we can only
give attention to, and from now, we advise you to stop all
communications you are having with any other agent or bank officials
in Europe, Asia and Africa regarding your payment.

Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions.
YOURS IN SERVICES.

MRS. AMANDA LINCOLN
PUBLIC INFORMATION
OFFICER. (FIC) SOUTH AFRICAN

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