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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: jimpeters10@freenet.de
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:23:03 +0100
Subject: CONTACT FEDEX EXPRESS NOW


Dear Friend,

I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your
Confirmable Bank Draft of $1,200,000.00 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
Dr.Wilson the Director Bank of Africa told me that before the draft will
get to your hand that it will expire. So I told him to cash the
$1,200,000 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 May 2008.

What
you have to do now is to contact FEDEX EXPRESS SRVICE as soon as
possible to know when they will deliver your Consignment to you because
of the expiring date. For your information, I have paid for the
delivering Charge, Insurance premium.

The only money you will send to
the FEDEX EXPRESS SRVICE to deliver your Consignment direct to your
postal Address in your country is ($110.00 US) One Hundred & Ten 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
$110.00 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 demurrage.

You
have to contact FEDEX EXPRESS SRVICE now for the delivery of your Draft
with this information bellow;

Directors Name: Dr. Godwin Nonso
Companys
Name:FEDEX EXPRESS SRVICE
Email Address:
(fedexexpressdeliverycompanyplc@yahoo.fr)
Tel/FAX: +229
93793975

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address and
Direct telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake on the
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 $110.00 US Dollars for their immediate action.

Note
this. The FEDEX EXPRESS SRVICE don\'t know the contents of the Box. I
registered it as a BOX of Africa cloths. They did not know the contents
was money. this is to avoid them delaying with the BOX. Don’t let
them know that box contents money ok.
I am waiting for your urgent
response.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Jim Peters.



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