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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: "SENATOR ROSE JIDETA" <Jsousa@secrel.com.br>
Reply-To: dhlcourierdelivery@yeah.net
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 21:37:23 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: COMPLIMENTS!





Fund update!!!

I want to inform you that your fund is still with the DHL COURIER SERVICE
ready to be delivered to you. So you have to contact them ASAP to enable
them deliver the box to you by tomorrow.
Secondly, note that you will pay their security keeping fee of 125 and
do not be deceived by any one to pay any more money to them because we
agreed together that the security keeping fee is the only fee they
will ever demand from you..

You have to contact DHL COURIER SERVICES now for the delivery of your
$14.5M USD with this information bellow;

Directors Name: Dr. Mosafa Ben
Companys Name:DHL COURIER SERVICES
Email Address: (dhlcourierdelivery@yeah.net)
Tel: +229 60584600


I am waiting for your urgent response and also provide the below codes to
them.



SHIPMENT CODE AWB 33XZS
PACKAGE REGISTERED CODE NO XGT442.
SECURITY CODE SCTC/2001DHX/567/
CERTIFICATE DEPOSIT CODE SCTC/BUN/xxiv/-78/01


God bless you and your family.
SENATOR ROSE JIDETA

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