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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: "DafuDr James" <drjamesdafu2@yp.com.hk>
Reply-To: global_basic@sify.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:01:02 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend



Dear Friend,

It has been long we communicated last and I am so sorry for the
delay,I mean
your cheque of USD$800.000.00 that my boss asked me to mail to you as
soon as
you request for it but due to some high price of courier company you
fail to
respond to me and presently the cheque is still with me here in Benin
Republic.

I went to the bank to verify the status of the cheque but I was told
that your
cheque is still valid that you can cash the cheque in any bank in the
world.

I wish to inform you that I have found a new contact from a friend of
mine who
works with Diplomatic Courier Company here in BENIN REPUBLIC that will
deliver
your cheque at your door step with a cheeper rate which the company
said that
it will only cost you the sum of $98.00 us dollars.

so you have to hurry and register with them now and try to ask them to
give you
the direction which you will use to send the $98.00 tothem to enable
them
proceed with the delivery of your cheque because your draft is already
with
them.
The draft was packaged in a way that the courier company will not open
it
untill you receive it according to them it will only take them 2 days
to
deliver the cheque to your door step,
So my friend, you have to hurry and make sure you send the $98.00 to
them to
enable them deliver the draft to you and make sure you cantact them
immedaitely
with the information giving to you bellow so that your $800.000.00
will be
deliver to you this week.
Below is thier contact detail:


Directors name....DR HENRY OKOYE
Email...(global_basic@sify.com)
Telephone..........+229-977-998-53

Please do send your full address to them such as
YOUR FULL NAME .........
YOUR ADDRESS WHERE THE DRAFT WILL BE DROP
YOUR CONTACT PHONE................

Thank you.
Mr. Dr James Dafu


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