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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: "UPS COURIER COMPANY" <ups_d@yahoo.com.hk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ups.deliverycare7@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:56:33 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: UPS PARCEL

Dear Beneficiary,

This is to notify you that your parcel is still in our possession. This
parcel contains an International Cashable Bank Draft/Cheque worth the sum
of $2 Million dollars only and it is ready for delivery to your door step.
Meanwhile, before the delivery or shipment will take place, you are advice
to send to us the following data mentioned;

Fill this Form:
Name:
Sex;
Age;
Marital status;
Occupation;
Address:
City:
State:
Postal Code:
Country:
And your contact phone number:

The above requested information will enable us to check and deliver your
parcel correctly without any mistake or delivering your parcel to a wrong
person. Furthermore, you might be Asking yourself how comes this email,
cheque or draft. Anyway, your cheque was brought to this office by a
Lottery Fiduciary Agent or Claim Agent, signifying That you are a rightful
winner to their Lottery Award selected randomly from 10 lucky email
addresses which your email address is one of the lucky email addresses.

UPS Courier Service Company mailing you as per your parcel that was
brought to This Company to be delivered to you by lottery groups. Along
the delivery process There was a logistics problem between you and the
lottery claim agent with regards to Their request as per their insurance
certificate cost, and tax fee which happened to Be the cause of your
parcel being pending. Meanwhile we are hereby happy to inform you that the
UPS Company has finalized Everything with the icon insurance company, and
the internal revenue Office, as the company has also listed 24 valuable
parcels to be intact in their Office after the released of the parcels
from the icon insurance company and internal Revenue office.

We are happy to inform you once again that your parcel that contains the
sum of $2 million dollars is among the 24 parcels listed which are now in
our office and also with your name as the receiver. Therefore, you are
required to resend your private residential or forwarding Address, where
you can receive this classified parcel without difficulty, indicate also
you're current Telephone number as stated above, and send all information
to UPS Courier Company via email(ups.deliverycare7@yahoo.com.hk) Clients
services department.

Meanwhile remember that the sender of this parcel to you that is the
Fiduciary Agent still owes this company the sum of $210 before this
incident occurred, also note that this company has spend out of our
incomes in the process of recovering back your parcels, because we protect
our integrity and the interest of our dear customers. We once again
appreciate your patronage in our favor. Without hesitation you are to pay
for just the balance left by your sender as a matter of policy. Send the
money via Western union or money Gram, so that your parcel can be
delivered to your residential address, before it accumulates a demurrage
after one week only. As you know your parcel is not just an ordinary
parcel but contains a huge amount and I think you understand what is meant
by accumulating a demurrage, which you will not allow to happen to your
recovered parcel.

We assure you that your parcel will arrive your country in two days time
and it Will get to your door step the third day, as soon as this company
receives the balance Left by your sender. The tracking number of your
parcel will be sent to you via e-mail Immediately, so that you can track
it yourself to see your parcel coming on the way and you will also know
when it will arrive at your country because we operate in trust and
Loyalty in your favor.

And also the UPS Courier Services Company earns your confidence and will
assist all our esteemed customers for faster service delivery. UPS
provides access to a growing global market place through a network of
supply chain, Transportation, business and related information Services.

YOU CAN MAKE THE PAYMENT VIA WESTERN UNION OR MONEY GRAM WITH THIS PAYMENT
INFORMATION:-

RECIEVERS NAME------MISS LUCY OKOSUN
SENDERS NAME------- YOUR NAME
SENDERS COUNTRY----- YOUR ADDRESS
RECIEVERS COUNTRY----LAGOS-NIGERIA.
TEXT QUESTION------------IN GOD
TEXT ANSWER---------------WE TRUST
AMOUNT TO BE PAID---------$210
MTCN NUMBER...............

Please you have to send the full payment information including the MTCN
Number for us To fully proceed on your delivery. UPS Courier is one of the
world's great success stories, we Start-up the Revolutionized delivery of
packages and information. In the past 30 Years, we've grown up and grown
into a diverse family of companies -as UPS, We are bigger, stronger,
better than ever. Call: Tel:+234-703-826-0536. And speak With me, Mr.
Robert Johnson. (Clients services director) for more info.

Waiting to read your E-mail.

Respectfully Yours.

Mr. Robert Johnson.
Call: Tel: :+234-703-826-0536



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