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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: DHL EXPRESS COURIER <vinarskydvur@o2active.cz>
Reply-To: maildeliverydesk001@googlemail.com
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:37:04 +0100
Subject: Mail Delivery please confirm




Attn
Customer!

We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirmed Package that
is registered with us for shipping to your residential location.We had
thought that your sender gave you our contact details.It may interest you
to know that a letter is also added to your package.However, we cannot
quote its content to you via email for privacy reasons.

We understand that the content of your package itself is a Bank Draft
worth of $800,000.00 USD, DHL do not ship money in CASH or in CHEQUES
but Bank Drafts are shippable.The package is registered with us for
mailing by your colleague, and your colleague explained that he is from
should be kept secret but he has Us passport but he is here in UNITED KINGDOM
for a three (3)months
Surveying Project as he works with a OIL RIG consultant firm in UNITED
KINGDOM We are sending you this email because your package is been
registered on a Special Order.

What you have to do now, is to contact our Delivery Department for
immediate dispatchment of your package to your residencial address.Note
that as soon as our Delivery Team confirms your informations, it will take
only one working day (24 hours) for your package to arrive it's
designated destination.For your information, the VAT & Shipping charges as
well as Insurance fees have been paid by your colleague before your
package was registered.Note that the payment that is made on the
Insurance, Premium & Clearance Certificates, are to certify that the Bank
Draft is not a Drug Affiliated Fund (DAF) neither is it funds to sponsor
Terrorism in your country. This will help you avoid any form of query from
the Monetary Authority of your country.

However, you will have to pay a sum of £124 GBP EQUIVALENT to $245.00
DOLLARS
to the DHL Delivery Department being full payment for the Security Keeping
Fee of the DHL company as stated in ourprivacy terms & condition page.
Also be informed that your colleague wished to pay for the Security Keeping
charges, but we do not accept such payment considering the facts that
all items& packagesthat is registered with us have a time limitation and \
we cannot acceptpayment not knowing when you will be picking up the
package or evenresponding to us.So we cannot take the risk to have
accepted such payment incase of any possible demurrage.

Kindly note that your colleague did not leave us with any further
information.We hope that you respond to us as soon as possible because if
you fail to respond until the expiry date of the foremost package, we may
refer the package to the British Commission for Welfare as the package do
not have a return address.

Kindly contact the delivery department (DHL Delivery Post) with the
details given below:

DHL Delivery Post
Contact Person:MR Auther WODGATE
Email:maildeliverydesk001@googlemail.com
Tel: +447045739958
Kindly complete the below form and send it to the email address given
above.This is mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone
numbers.
FULL NAMES:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
COUNTRY:

As soon as your details are received, our delivery team will give you the
neccessary payment procedure so that you can effect the payment for the
Security Keeping Fees. As soon as they confirm your payment receipt of
£124GBP, they will not hesitate to dispatch your package as well as the
attahced letter to your residence. It usually takes 24 hours being an over
night delivery service.

Note that we were not instructed to email you, but due to the high
priority of your package we had to inform you as your sender did not leave
us with his phone number because he stated that he just arrived UNITED
KINGDOM and he hasn't fix his phone yet. We indeed personally sealed
your Bank Draft and we found your email contact in the attached letter as the
recipient of the foremost package.

Ensure to contact the delivery department with the email address given
above and ensure to fill the above form as well to enable a successful
reconfirmation.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Mira Diva.
DHL EXPRESS TEAM Management.
All rights reserved. © 1995-2008

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