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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: officefile19@freenet.de
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:12:23 +0200
Subject: contact courierfedex


Dear Friend,
I have been waiting for you since to come down here and
pick your draft but I did not hear from you since that time.Then I went
and deposited the $2.5M usd as a consignment box to FEDEX COURIER
COMPANY here in Cotonou Benin Republic,because I travelled to SAUDI
ARABIA to visit my friend and i will not come back till next month
ending.

I want You to contact the FEDEX COURIER COMPANY to know when
they will deliver your package. I have paid for the delivering charges
and security fee including the keeping fee.The only money you have to
send to them is the,insurance fee, which is $130.00 Us Dollars to
received your package. Please, Send them your contact information to
enable them locate you immediately they arrived in your country with
your BOX .This is what they needed from you.

1.YOUR FULL
NAME...................
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS........
3.YOUR CURRENT
HOME TELEPHON E NUMBER.........
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE......

5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE .......
6.YOUR COUNTRY................
7.YOUR
NEAREST AIRPROT .................

CONTACT PERSON;REV,DR PIUS EZEH.

DIRECTOR GENERAL OF FEDEX COURIER COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC.

E-mail:courierfedex13@yahoo.fr r)
CONTACT PHONE: +229936-966-14

Try
to contact them as soon as possible to avoid them increasing insurance
fee. I gave them your delivering address but you have to reconfirm it
to them again to avoid any mistake on the delivery.Let me know as soon
as the delivery of your package is completed.Do not tell them the
content of the box because I registered it as a box of ordinary family
goods.

Best Regards.
Mr.Sule Adamu
Unbegrenzter Speicher,
Top-Spamschutz, 120 SMS und eigene E-MailDomain
inkl.
http://office.freenet.de/dienste/emailoffice/produktuebersicht/power/mail/index.html


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