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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: Frank Udoh<frankudoh05@freenet.de>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:55:17 +0200
Subject: CONTACT FEDEX EXPRESS SERVICES FOR YOUR PACKAGE IMMEDIATELY


Dear friend,
How are you today ?. I\'m writing to inform you that I have
Paid the fee for your Draft Cheque. Yesterday, I went to the bank to
confirm if the Cheque has expired or getting near to expire and Mr.Ahmed
Zuma the Director of B.O.A Bank Of Africa told me that before the cheque
will get to your hand that it will expire. So I told him to cash the
$850,000.00, to avoid losing this funds under expiration as I will be
out out of the country for a 3 Months Course and I will not come back
till end of June 2008. What you have to do now is to contact the FedEx
Delivery Express as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your
package to you because of the expiring date. For your information, I
have paid for the isurance and delivering Charge.

The only money you
will send to the FedEx Express to deliver your Consignment direct to
your postal Address in your country is US$106 One Hundred & Six United
States Dollars only being Security Keeping Fee for the Fedex Service so
far.Again, don\'t be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except
US$106.00. I would have paid that but they said no because they don\'t
know when you will contact them and in case of dumourrage on your
Package with them.

Please write a letter of application to the given
address below:

Company Name: FedEx Express
Director: Dr.Obi
Morgan
Contact Email: fedexexpress62@yahoo.fr
Contact Tel:
+229-9393-7714
Contact Fax: +229-2881-1040

Finally, make sure that you
reconfirm your Postal address, nearest local and international airport,
Direct telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake on the
Delivery. They will issue you a tracking #, to enable you track your
consignment box and know when it will get to your house.

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 $106.00 for their immediate action to deliver urgently.
Note
that: The FedEx Express don\'t know the contents of the Box. I
registered it as a BOX of African cloths. They did not know that the
contents was money, this is to avoid them delaying or termpering with
the BOX. Don\'t let them know that the box contains money ok.
Thanks
and More Blesssing.

Regards,
Rev. Dr, Frank Udoh








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