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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: "DHL EXPRESS DELIVERY"<Administrator@orientcraft.com>
Reply-To: <dhl-delivery36-service36@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:18:39 -0700
Subject: YOUR UNCLAIMED 1.5MILLION USD FROM DHL

Good day:



I am MR.AUTHUR SMITH FROM Dhl EXpress delivery Service

I have since been in custody of a parcel that contains an ATM CARD wort 1.5million united states dollars,that belongs to you.



The parcel was delivered to the DHL BRANCH OFFICE were i work as the manager,this parcel was on its way to your destination and it was been sent from ABUJA NIGERIA,the reason why the delivery of the parcel was not been completed to your destination was that ,the parcel has been ordered from the head office DHL NIGERIA AND ALSO LONDON to be stoped due to the reason that the tax CLEARANCE fees has not yet been settled by the SENDER AND all our effort to locate him or her has been in vain,so we reasoned that it will be better to contact you the receiver,since your sender left with us your information and also your email address to be in contact with you on delivery of the parcel to you,So the parcel was stoped because according to the dhl office in nigeria that any funds leaving there country that is above 200,000.00usd must have the tax clearance fees settled otherwise it will be taged as illegal funds.



But i have been instructed not to proceed with the delivery as at yet because you will need to settle the TAX CLEARANCE FEES ,that will be submited to the TAX CLEARANCE HEAD OFFICE IN ABUJA NIGERIA before the parcel can be released from my office to you.




So before your parcel will proceed from canada to your destination ,you have been asked to send to them the total of 200usd ,in other for them to help acquire the form for the tax clearance and also have it submited and afterwords you will have your parcel forwarded to you again.



You are required to send the total of 200usd to them in nigeria,as soon as you see this email to the information below via western union.



RECEIVERS NAME: Paul Adams
COUNTRY:NIGERIA
STATE:ABUJA
TEST QUESTION: RED
TEST ANSWER:BLUE
AMOUNT TO SEND:200USD



As soon as you have the Tax clearance fees SENT you are adviced to fill out the bellow western union details and email them the details to me on my personal email address (dhl-delivery36-service36@hotmail.com) or call them dirrectly on +2348039284683 to provide the bellow information to them.



MTCN..............
SENDERS NAME...............
SENDER COUNTRY...............



As soon as your payment has been comfirmed you will receive your tracking number so you can mornitor your parcel until it arrives your destination but take note that it will only take 24hrs for us to deliver your ATM CARD to you,do not forget to send along your full mailing address.

If we do not receive your TAX CLEARANCE FEES IN 48HRS after this mail has been sent then the parcel will be forwarded to the FBI as unclaimed.

NOTE:IF YOU CAN NOT MAKE THE REQURIED PAYMENT DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL IN OTHERWORDS YOU ARE ADVICED TO DISREGARD THIS MAIL

Mr.AUTHUR SMITH

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