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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" <mrslavida7@gala.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:04:53 +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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