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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: "Anderson"<mike145@mike.org>
Reply-To: <apex.apexcourierservice@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 23:08:16 -0700
Subject: Greetins Dear Beloved Friend,

Greetins Dear Beloved Friend,

I have been waiting for you to come down here and pick your $1.500,000 USD but I did not heard from you.Then I went and deposited the $1.5M USA Dollars as a consignments box to APEX COURIER SERVICE Because I travelled to Dubai and i will not come back till next month end.I want You to contact the APEX COURIER SERVICE Head office Nigeria to know when they will deliver your consignment box to you.

Please i want to let you know that is only the director knows the content and no body else knows about this only Dr Williams Momoh the director,So please waste no time in contacting them with the below information.I have paid for the delievery fee, The only money you have to send to them now is the security keeping fee of your consignment.Please i will advice you to be friendly with Dr William Momoh the director because he alone have the idea of the content of your consignment.

But i want to let you know that i did not give him the key of the box so please take note that as soon as they deliver the consignment use this ( CODE NUMBERS TO OPEN THE BOX TO KNOW IF THE COMPLETE OF 1.5MILLION USD IS IN IT ).THE FIRST BOX CODE ( 0036589 )THE SECOND BOX CODE ( 4475855 ) AND I WANT YOU TO KEEP THIS CODE NUMBER CONFIDENTIAL IN YOUR HOME TO AVOID ANOTHER PERSON GETTING IN TOUCH WITH YOUR MONEY MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. PLEASE CONTACT THEM TO THE BELOW INFORMATION IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE THIS MAIL

CONTACT PERSON:Dr.WILLIAMS MOMOH
DESPATCH DIRECTOR APEX COURIER SERVICE
WEST AFRICA HEAD OFFICE NIGERIA
E-mail:apex.apexcourierservice@googlemail.com
Email apex_apex@live.com
Telephone +234 8035649823

Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid increasing the security keeping fee I gave them your delivering address but you have to reconfirm it to them again to avoid them making mistake in delievering your consignment to your home reconfirm below information to the company immediately and tell them to send to you the airwaybill reciept as soon as you send them the security fee.I would have paid the security fee for you but they said no because they dont know when you will contact them so please they are waiting for you to contact them with your information to avoid mistake in delivery.and let them know also that they should waste no time in sending to you the tracking number or the airwaybill reciept of your consignment so that you can be able to track it and know when it will arrive your country.

Your FullName-----------------------
Your Address------------------------
Your telephone-----------------------
Your Age ---------------------
Your pic-----------------------------
Occupation---------------------------

Let me know as soon as you receive your consignment,and check the contents whether the complete of the total 1.5,000,00 million united states dollars is in it.Please always call them to know the condition of this consighment because you know the content so please let it be very important to you So try and do everything possible to make sure that the box gets to your home without any delay.

Best Wishes,
Mike Anderson




















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