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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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Fraud email example:

From: secr patricklee <secr_patricklee022@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <sharlon_courierservice_company77@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:44:27 +0100
Subject: CONTACT THEM NOW



Hello My Dear How are you doing?I want to usethis opportunity to share this Good news to you i received a call from my boss yesterday notifying me that his bank communicated him and informed him that the draft he issued has not paid to any bank for claim and that draft will expire on 25Th of this month. So he instructed me to meet with his bank officials who he has concluded arrangement to converted the draft to cash before it expiring date. Meanwhile,I went straight to courier company to collect the draft and went directly to the bank as my boss instructed. The good news is that the bank official have converted your draft into cash with all the accrued interest for months and return back to courier company to deliver to your address. Be inform that in the cause of all these it was confirmed and discovered from bank official that the sum stated earlier was wrong, The verification shows that the correct draft contain was $1,500,000.00usd and is why it has grown so much interest. It is now registered with the company as a consignment with a new COMPANY REGISTRATION NO Ek58845 CODE NMBER 0144489Please confirm urgently the receipt of this message you are very lucky as i believe it is a devine visitation and favour in your life.My Dear I have paid the fee for the delivery of you consignment . But the Director General of the Sharlon Courier Company Benin Republic Dr ERIC BISSLA said that the fee did not cover the Insurance fee that it remains $98 to complete the fee.So the only money you will send to them is $98 ok. all the necessary arrangement of delivering the $1,500,000.00usd in cash was made with SHARLON COURIER DIPLOMATIC DELIVERY COMPANY SHARLON COURIER DIPLOMATIC DELIVERY COMPANY DIRECTORREV DR ERIC BISSOLA.EMAIL=========sharlon_courierservice_company77@yahoo.frPlease make sure you contact them today with the above email address Thanks and Remain Blessed.SECRETARY Patrick Lee
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