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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: Barrister Jim Cooker <offfiles035@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Barrister Jim Cooker <www.tntcomp1122@barid.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:33:56 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Good day to you


 Good day to you

This is Barrister Jim cooker and I am writing to let you know that I have arranged your payment of $2.5Musd into an ATM CARD because of your inability to receive your funds through wire transfer and have deposited it with TNT delivery company today being the 21th of January 2015 and they wil be waiting for you to contact them with your full reconfirmed delivery details so that they can proceed ahead with the delivery.

All the document that buttress the claim of your funds was also handed over to the TNT DELIVERY company which means
that your delivery is 100% guranteed to be delivered to your designated address within 3days by the TNT company without any interference from any international body to restrict the delivery.

Meanwhile,the TNT director Mr Paulinus Ebere stated that you will have to contact then in time to avoid paying for demurrage fee because when an Items/goods stays so long in their custody that it will accumulate demurrage and such fee has to be taking care of by the beneficiary and so He said you should contact them now if you does'nt want that to happen.

He further stated that you will be bearing the cost for the delivery and that it is only going to cost you $88Usd only and that is all and nothing more or less as I have already paid them the registeration fee of the ATM CARD which cost me $109Usd.

Now,what you need to do is to contact them with your full reconfirmed deliver address and try to send them the $88Usd immediately with the below name of their account receiver agent.

Receiver name:::::::::::::::::IKEM UBA
Amount::::::::::::::::$88 dollar only
text question::::::::::zip code??
Answer::::::::::;;00229
country:::::::::::BENIN REPUBLIC
City:::::::::::::;;;;Cotonou
sender name::::::::::::::

Make sure you contact them immediately with your delivery details and also send them their delivery fee of $88usd for their immediate attention to the delivery of your ATM CARD this week and to avoid demurrage accumulation of your ATM CARD.

You can contact them via www.tntcomp1122@barid.com with your full reconfirmed delivery details.Also their phone number is +22998914872 incase you would like to call them

Yours in service
Barrister Jim  cooker

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