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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 James Aku" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <james_aku001@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:04:15 -0800
Subject: Consignment Delivery..

Hello

Am Dr James Aku head of of custom regulatory Department Cairo Egypt,Will have a package in our custom Desk which bear all information of yours and the content have an Insurance value of 4.5 million united state dollars.

The consignment package left from United kingdom and made a transit in Egypt but after we went through the document showed to us we found that the vital document where not obtained and it was not going to the direct location which it suppose to deliver to because your consignment package was tagged for diplomatic delivery to your door step.

we want you to know that we have attached custom application form for you to fill and send back to us so we can get it notarized before any mode of delivery can be rendered to your consignment package for delivery.

View the attachment and get back to us via email: james_aku002@yahoo.com

Sign,
Dr James Aku

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