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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: "Dr. (Mrs) Dorothy Hedstrom" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <undeliveryunit@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:34:52 -0700
Subject: Call dispatch unit for your delivery

*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro*
WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017, USA

OUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.

Greetings,

***Your ATM CARD Delivery Tracking Number: 1ZA67T571304485982***

We were authorized by the newly appointed United Nation Secretary
General, and the Governing body of the United Nations Debt
Reconciliation Unit, to investigate the unnecessary delay on your
payment, recommended and approved in your favor. During the course of
our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been
unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials of the Bank and Government
regulatory organs in Nigeria who are trying to divert your funds into
their private accounts.

However, our reason for contacting you on this day is to inform you that
your ATM CARD was dispatched through United Postal Service (UPS) but at
the point of dispatch on the 15th of October, 2011, one Mr. Clyde
Stewart contacted our Head Office in Nigeria that he is your
representative and that you gave him due authorization to receive the
package on your behalf and he presented an Affidavit to our Office
claiming to be Approved by the High Court of Nigeria and
duly signed by you.

We sent you series of emails in this regards but you did not respond
back to us; However, in the course of our routine scrutinization into
our Dispatch Alert, we discovered that the document presented to us by
Mr. Clyde Stewart was not approved by the High Court of Nigeria and we
discovered that Mr. Clyde Stewart was an impostor trying to claim your
parcel which has been delivered to our Legal Department in New Jersey
USA.

For our information, the parcel has been Delivered at Butler New Jersey
(NJ) and was scheduled for Austin, Texas. To verify this notification,
go to www.ups.com and insert the tracking number below to view delivery
status.

www.ups.com
Your Tracking Number: 1ZA67T571304485982

Thus, you are advised to contact the UPS Courier Dispatch Head in
Nigeria with the information below; to enable them re-schedule the
delivery of your ATM Card to your home address and also ensure that you
keep the new Tracking Information very discreet to avoid any further
obstruction;

REV. Mordic Abel,
Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit.
Email: (undeliveryunit@hotmail.com)
Direct Telephone line: +234-7080204837

As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide
your present address as below to the contact in other for the Officer to
effect the change and Re-direct the parcel to your home address.

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:

We expect your urgent attention to this email to enable us monitor this
payment effectively. online with the mode of operation of the United
Postal Service (UPS), you shall be required to pay the sum of $125
(Only) as the RE-Direction Fee. Once you contact the Office, please
request for payment option from them in other to avoid further delay
which might result into demur-rage and excessive demand for fees.

Sincerely yours,

Dr. (Mrs) Dorothy Hedstrom
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTER,
NEW YORK. USA

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