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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 Lavida Johnson" <mrslavida@gala.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:06:22 +0200
Subject: CONTACT COURIER SERVICES URGENT


Dear Friend,

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?,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 LOGISTIC MANAGEMENT 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
LOGISTIC MANAGEMENT COURIER SERVICES to deliver your Consignment direct to
your Address in your country is $57.00 only being Security Keeping Fee of
the Courier Company so far. Again, dont be deceived by anybody to pay any
other money except $57.00 .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 LOGISTIC MANAGEMANT COURIER SERVICES now for the delivery of your
Consignment with their email as logisticmanagementcompp@live.fr

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 (CP0081) which will prove that you are the owner of the package
deposited in their company.Their email address again is
logisticmanagementcompp@live.fr

and the Manager is Mr Emmy Frank.

Also note that 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.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs Lavida Johnson

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