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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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Fraud email example:

From: georgeisaac@freenet.de
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:19:26 +0100
Subject: CONTACT FEDEX COURIER COMPANY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE


I have been waiting for you since to come down and pick-up
your
Confirmable BankDraft at the value of $1,500.000.00(one million
and
five hundred
thousand United States Dollars), but I did not hear
from you since for
a couple of weeks now.Then I went to the bank
to
confirm if the draft has expired or getting near to expire
and
Mr.James Adams the Director Bank of Africa told me that before
the
draft will get to your hands that it will expire. So I told him to

cash the
$1,500.000.00 USD United States Dollars to cash payment to
avoid
losing this funds under expiration as I will be out of the country
for
a 3 Months Course and I will not come back till ending of
August.
What you have to do now is to contact FedEX Courier Services as
soon as
possible to know when they will deliver your Consignment to you.
For
your information, They accepted cash on delivery C.O.D But
insisted
that the security fee must be paid before the delivery will be

commenced.
So the only money you will send to the FEDEX COURIER SERVICES
to
deliver your Consignment direct to your postal Address in your
country
is ($105.00
US)One Hundred and Five United States Dollars only
being Security
Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far.
Again, don\'t
be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except
$105.00 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 dumorage.You
have to
contact FedEX Courier Services now for the delivery of your
consignment
with this information bellow;
Directors Name: Rev. Maxwell
Shargan
Companys Name: FEDEX COURIER
SERVICES
Telephone.......+2293-912-718
Email Address:
fedexmodeldeliverycourier@yahoo.fr
Finally, make sure that you reconfirm
your Postal address
Such as
Your name in
full...........................
Your
age.................................
Your Home
address.....................
Your occupation
Your current phone
number...............
An attachment of your photo...............&
Your
nearest airport.................
to avoid any mistake on the Delivery
and ask them to
send your airway bill and keep you updated on the
arrival of your
consignment 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 or increase in the dumorage and remember
to pay them
their Security Keeping fee of $105.00 US Dollars for their
immediate
action.
Note this. The FedEX Courier Services don\'t know the
contents of the
Box.I registered it as a BOX of African clothes. They
did not know that
it contains money. this is to avoid them delaying with
the BoX. Don,t
let them know that box contains money please. Finally,
Endaevour to
indicate this CODE (FD0081) which will prove that you are
the rightful
owner of the Consignment I deposited in their company,
Hoping you have
a happy day .
Yours Faithfully,
MR GEORGE ISAAC









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