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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: "kelly agu" <kellyagu20@legwork.com.ng>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:21:28 +0200
Subject: CONTACT THE COURIER COMPANY IMMEDIATELY


Attn, My good friend.
I have waited enough to send your draft worth of $1,200,000 .00but did
not
receive any money to mail the draft to you and the timeit will be
expired
is getting near, I finally arranged with the bankmanger of FINACIAL
TRUST BANK BENIN REPUBLIC MR PHILIP AMAGA and he hascoverted the draft
into cash payemt and package it in a diplomat boxthe arrangement has
been finalized with DIPLOMATIC COURIER COMPANYBENIN to send the package
through diplomatic courier service i havecontacted them and they told
me that you should forward all thisinformation below to them.Please
carefully
confirm your full houseaddress, your private mobial phone number and
send it to them to avoidwrong delivery of the consignmet to you .
FIRST NAME.......................
LAST NAME...........................
OCCUPATION.............................
YOUR HOUSEADDRESS...............
AGE..................................
YOURPICTURE. ...........................
YOUR NEXT OF KIN.........................
TELPHONE NUMBER......................
FAXNUMBER...............................
HOUSE ADDRESS....................................,,
Also remember that they did notknow the content of the box I
registered
it as an Africa cloths. Theydon't
know that it contents money. this is to avoid them delaying withthe
delivery
of the box to you .i don't
want you to let them knowthat the content is money .
JUST FEEL FREE AND CONTACT THEM WITH THIS EMAIL
couriercompany_beninzone@yahoo.fr

SHIPMENT CODE AWB33XZS
CONSIGNMENT REGISTERED CODE NO XGT442.
SECURITY CODESCTC/2001DHX/567/
TRANSACTION CODE 233/CSTC/101/33028/
CERTIFICATEDEPOSIT CODE SCTC/BUN/xxiv/-78/01
CONTACT PERSON ..... DR RICHARDBAZZER
ADDRESS NO5 AKPAKPA WHTIE HOUSE BULIDING
BENIN REPUBLIC.
TELPHONE NUMBER.....+229-97490084

BEST REGARS,
MR KELLY AGU

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