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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: "Mrs Patricia Johnson" <mrspatricia0024@mailbox.hu>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:22:09 +0100
Subject: CONTACT CHRONOPOST COURIER COMPANY IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR CONSIGNMENT


Dear Friend,


How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?,You may not
understand why this mail came to you. But if you do not remember me, you
might have received an email from me in the past regarding your Bank Draft
of $4.5M United States Dollars that your friend left that i should send you
which you never received.


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 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 hand that it will
expire. So I told him to cash the $4,500.000 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
October 2008.

What you have to do now is to contact CHRONOPOST COURIER SERVICES as soon as
possible to know when they will deliver your Consignmen 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 CHRONOPOST
COURIER SERVICES to deliver your Consignment direct to your Address in your
country is $274.00 US United States Dollars only being Security Keeping Fee
of the Courier Company so far. Again, dont be deceived by anybody to pay any
other money except $274.00 US Dollars. I would have paid that but they said
no because they dont know when you will contact them and in case of
demurage.

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

Companys Name:CHRONOPOST COURIER SERVICES
The Directors name is PATRICK MARTINS
International Shipment Director
Email Address:chronopostcompltd@live.com<Address%3Achronopostcompltd@live.com>


Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your 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 that it is when you must have pay the $274.00 for the security fee
that the package will be released and the tracking number would be
given to you.You may always email me on my direct email address (
mrs_patricia001@yahoo.co.jp) but if you mail me I will be very busy with my
course and I will not be able to reply your mail immediately.


Note this. The CHRONO COURIER SERVICES dont know the contents of the Box. I
registered it as a BOX of Africa Arts materials. 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,

Mrs Patricia Johnson

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