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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. Richard Branson" <richardbranson8@gala.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:14:15 +0100
Subject: Hello Friend,


Hello Friend,

After waiting and no response was heard, I deposited and also paid for the
delivery fee of your $3,000,000.00 Million US Dollars,as consignment box to
FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY in LAGOS because I travelled to SAUDI ARABIA
to visit my friend and i will not come back till september,2008. I want you
to contact the FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY to know when they will be
delivering your consignment.

I have paid for the delivery charges and also the insurance fee,the only fee
you will pay them is the monthly dumorage fee which they would pay the
security department that are guarding your consignment since the deposition
day.

But if you will be very fast in contacting them,you will be charged for only
one month dumorage fee which will cost only $280 USD. So i urge you to
contact them as soon as you receive this email.

CONTACT: DR. BEN CHUKWU
MANAGER: FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY.
E-mail: federalinlandsecurity.co@hotmail.com

Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid increase in dumorage fee. I
gave them your delivery address but you have to reconfirm it to them again
to avoid any mistakes in the delivery of your fund.

Reconfirm below information to the company.

Your Full Name-----------------------
Your Address-------------------------
Home Telephone-----------------------
Office Telephone---------------------

Finally indicate this code: GM0081 when contacting them, it will identify
that you are the rightful owner of the $3,000,000.00
consignment trunk box deposited in the company. Do let me know as soon as
you receive the consignment and take a proper account of the content if the
content is $3,000,000.00.

Regards,
Mr. Richard Branson

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