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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: "Mr. William Colde" <msdaniellasmith@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Mr. William Colde" <dr.frankben@yahoo.cl>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:43:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Attn; Dear Fund beneficiary


CONTACT DHL DELIVERY COURIER SERVICE
(HILL & COUNSELORS AT LAW) 03 BP 1401
AKPAKPA DODOMEY COTONOU REPUBLIC OF BENIN.

Attn; Dear Fund beneficiary

I have been waiting for you all this while to contact me for your Confirm-able Bank Draft of $1.200,000 United States Dollars, but I did not hear from you since then so I went to the bank to confirm if the draft has expired or getting closer to its expiry date and “Dr. Frank Ben “ the Director of  DHL COURIER COMPANY BENIN told me that the draft will expire before it gets to you over there in your country. So I told him to cash the $1.200, 000 United States Dollars to cash payment to avoid losing the funds under expiration as I traveled out of the country for a short Course and will not come back until the end of next Month.

What you have to do now is to contact the DHL COURIER COMPANY as soon as possible to know when they will deliver the package to you because of the expiry date. For your information, I have paid the delivery Charge, Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the cheque showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorist attack in your Country.

The only money you will send to the DHL COURIER COMPANY to deliver your Consignment direct to your postal Address is ($95.00 US) Ninety Five United States Dollars only being the Security Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far. Again, don’t be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except $95.00 US Dollars. I would have paid that but they said no because they didn’t know when you will contact them and in case of demur-rage.

So my dear you have to contact the DHL COURIER COMPANY now for the delivery of your Draft with this information bellow;

Contact Person: Dr. Frank Ben
E-MAIL: (dr.frankben@yahoo.cl)
Tel: +229-98-79-74-50.

Registration No: Eg2282
Code Number: 01721458

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address and Direct telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake on the process of 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 further delay and remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee of $95.00 US Dollars for their immediate action.

Note this. The DHL COURIER COMPANY did not know the content of the Box. I registered it as a BOX of African cloths. They did not know that the content was money. This is to avoid them delaying with the BOX and you should not by any means let them know that the box’s content is money OK?

I am waiting for your urgent response.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. William Colde


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