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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: money19gram <money19gram@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 10:59:12 -0700
Subject: BANK DRAFT OF $1,000,000.00 USD UNITED STATES DOLLARS

Goodday !!!

BANK DRAFT of $1,000,000.00 USD UNITED STATES DOLLARS

This is to inform you that i have registered your BANK DRAFT of
$1,000,000.00 USD UNITED STATES DOLLARS with the DHL DELIVERY COURIER
SERVICES COMPANY as I will be out out of this country to Republic of
Ghana for a 3 Months and I will not come back till ending of October
2014.

What you have to do now is to contact DHL COURIER SERVICES as soon as
possible to know when they will deliver your Consignment to you. For
your information, I have paid for the delivering
Charge, Insurance premium.The only money you will send to the DHL
COURIER SERVICES to deliver your Consignment direct to your postal
Address in your country is ( $100 only ) being Security Keeping Fee of
the Courier Company so far.

Again, don't be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except
$100.00 US Dollars. I would have paid that but they said no because
they don't know when you will contact them and in case of
demurrage.You have to contact DHL COURIER SERVICES now for the
delivery of your Fund with this information bellow; Directors Name:
James Adamu, Companys Name: DHL COURIER SERVICES DELIVERY COMPANY.
Email Address: (deliverfund@yahoo.com)Phone +22966271594, Finally,
make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address and Direct telephone
number to
them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask them to give
you the tracking number to enable you track your package over there
and know when it will get to your address.

Let me repeat again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this
mail to avoid ! any furt her delay and remember to pay them their
Security Keeping fee of $100.00 US Dollars for their immediate
action.Note this.

The DHL COURIER SERVICES don't know the contents of the Box. I
registered it as a BOX of Africa cloths. They did not know the
contents was money. this is to avoid them delaying with the BOX. Don’t
let them know that box contents money ok.

Yours Faithfully,
MR MARTHINS.

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