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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: Klein Solomon <kleinsolomon565@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 15:52:07 +0800
Subject: YOUR APPROVED ATM CARD


*Hello My Dear *

















*I wish to use this medium to inform you that your compensation payment of
£18,500,000.00 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand pounds) bank of
India have been approved for onward transfer to you via an ATM DEBIT CARD
which you will use to withdraw all the £18,500,000.00 in any ATM SERVICE
MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum you can withdraw in a day
is £10,000.00 Only. In regards to the recent meeting between the Bank of
India and the Present United Kingdom Government to restore the dignity and
Economy of the Nations, Base on the Agreement with the International
Monetary Funds Assistance to help and make the world a better place for all
with the sole aim of abolishing poverty. We have been having a meeting for
the past 5 months which ended 2 days ago. The National Central Bureau of
Interpol enhanced by the Government of the United Kingdom and Federal
Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the
Government of India to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts
owed to Foreigners and Compensate all that have lost their hard earned
money to the India Fraudsters. This email is to all the people that have
had an unfinished transaction in any part of the world, the bank of India
have agreed to compensate them with the sum of £18,500,000.00 (Eighteen
Million Five Hundred Thousand pounds) This includes every foreign
contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that
have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed
due to Government problems, Contracts Sum, Lottery/Gambling etc. Your name
and email was in the list Submitted by our Monitoring Teams of Economic and
Financial Crime Commission (Interpol Police), International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Observers and this is
why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.
You are advised to acknowledge this message by establishing a contact with
us only at this email: office.1976@rediffmail.com
<office.1976@rediffmail.com> ). This funds has been credited in ATM CARD
for security purposes ok? So we shall send it to you by DHL delivery
Company, UPS, FedEx or by any means of your choice and you can withdraw in
any ATM Cash Point Machine Worldwide at the daily limit of $10,000 USD.
equivalent to all currencies Acknowledge this message immediately for your
ATM VISA CARD Delivery . We are very sorry for the plight you have gone
through in the past years. Thanks for adhering to this instruction and once
again accepting our congratulations. Thanks, Best Regards. Rajasthan Jaipur
email: office.1976@rediffmail.com <office.1976@rediffmail.com> Executive
Director Bank of India*

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