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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: jimpeters33@freenet.de
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:55:47 +0100
Subject: CONTACT FEDEX COURIER SERVICES IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR CONSIGNMENT


Dearest friend,
I have been waiting for you since to contact me for
your Confirmable Bank Draft of $4.5M United States Dollars, but I did
not hear from yousince 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 hand that it will expire. So I told him to cash the
$4,500.00 USD UNITED STATES DOLLARS to cash payment to avoid loosing
this funds under expiration as I will be out of the country for 4 Months
Course and I will not come back till ending of
June 2008.

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 because of the
expiring date. For your information, I have paid for the delivering
Charge and Insurance premium.

The only money you will send to the
FEDEX COURIER SERVICES to deliver your Consignment direct to your postal
Address in your country is $78.00 US Dollars only being Security Keeping
Fee of the Courier Company so far. Again, dont be deceived by anybody to
pay any other money except $78.00 US Dollars. I would have paid that but
they said no because they dont know when you will contact them and in
case of damurrage.

You have to contact FEDEX COURIER SERVICES now for
the delivery of your Consignment with this information bellow;


Companys Name:FEDEX COURIER SERVICES
The Directors name is Dr. Allan
Victor.
International Shipment Director
Email
Address:fedexcourierservicesltd1@live.fr


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.Finally, Endaevour to indicate this
CODE (CD0081) which will prove that you are the owner of the package
deposited in their company.

Note this. The FEDEX COURIER SERVICES dont
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 contain money ok.

Yours
Faithfully,
Mr Jim Peters

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