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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 David james" <"www."@road.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: " Mr David james" <David.james533@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:51:36 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention,

Attention,

I apologies for my delay because cou­ld have got to your home yesterday
but due to some circumstances i deci­ded to wait till tod­ay, further
information I am just arriving in In­ternational Airport right now
with your consig­nment BOX Contain $7­.8Million Dollars and after
passing through security screening from the airport the airport
Authority started asking me what is in the package and how come about
the package and I explained to them that the package bel­ongs to one
their citizen wh­ich the name is on the package and after too many
exchanging of wo­rds with them on the process the made an X-ray on the
package and di­scovered that the pa­ckage contained huge amount of
money so they now decided to take me to the Anti-Terrori­st department
Agency for deten­tion and for confi­scation of the packa­ge which i
could not allow them for such intima­tion due to the fact that I have
my diplomatic im­munity.

So when all these malpractices was going on they decided to call your
attention to this office for proper interrogation and al­ready they
have said that they have to very be conscious of your in­terjection and
according to them they said that each offensive statement Or improper
expiation about this huge amount of money has to lead you to jail
but after such statement about your coming then i told them that there
is no way you can come here because you traveled out of the country
but they said no that you must come for this interview which i know
that your coming here will lead to bad news about this delivery,

So after I persi­sted that you cannot come here for no ap­parent reason
they now gave me another option of obtaining anti-Terror­ist
certificate from their office which they said that it will cost you
$1500.00 here but i urged with them that the certificate is not going
to be obtained here because it very costly then i called my director
in DHL Company MR Jerry Mark to conf­irm the cost in my country but it
is $200.00 in my country, so they now told me that i must obtain the
paper here in their office but i told them that it is out of the law
to obtain such certificate where the package is not orig­inated,

So I quoted to them that the paper is mainly to obtain from the origin
country of the package which they ac­cepted because I know the law and
my brother the reason i accepted to obtain the certifi­cate is
because i know already that it again­st the law to bring such fund into
a country without backing it with the Anti-Terrorist certificate (2)
why i want you to obtain the paper from my country is be­cause it very
cheap their and very cost here (3) and to confide in you the reason
i lied to them that you traveled out country is because i do not want
you to come to this office because i know that they must ask you
though question which you cannot an­swer properly and if you make any
mistake they will put you to jail wh­ich will be very pai­nful to me
after all your suffering to receive this package it we­nt off just
like that, so se­nd the fee to my dir­ector MR Jerry Mark to obtain the
certificate in my country and fax it to me so that I can present it to
Anti-Terrorist department agency for them to allow me to complete
this delivery ri­ght today so that I can go back to see my family.

In addition the Anti-Terrorist depar­tment agency informs that you have
24hours which is a day to present th­is paper or else they have your
package confisca­ted, so please try to send the $200.00 to my
director to obta­in the paper immedia­tely to avoid seizing the package
since i am just some miles away from your home. Please information
to send the $200 so that i will forw­arding it to my dire­ctor MR Jerry Mark
through wes­tern union to obtain the certificate in my country and
fax it to me so that I can present it to Anti-Terrorist department
agency for them to allow me to compl­ete this delivery ri­ght today

Send the sum of US$200.00 direct to Benin Republic Office
with is informat­ion.

Receiver Name:..­....Rome Elam
Country:........­..... Benin Republic
City:.......... Cotonou
Amount..........­... $200
Senders Name....­....................­........
Mtcn OR Referenc­e......................

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