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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: "FedEx Online Management Team." <Blaire@rma.ac.be>
Reply-To: michealdouglas1@live.com
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:14:07 +0200 (CEST)
Subject:

Customer Service:

We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Package that is been
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 the content of your package itself is a Bank Draft worth
of $800,000.00 Eight Hundred Thousand US Dollars). As you know, FedEx does
not ship money in CASH or in CHEQUES but BANK DRAFTS are shippable.

The package is registered with us for mailing by an official of the united
nation office in UK.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 dispatch of your package to your
residential address. Note that as soon as our Delivery Team confirms your
information, it will take three (3) working days (72Hrs) for your package
to arrive at your 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 £105 GBP which is equivalent to
$210 USD to the FedEx Delivery Department being full payment for the
Security Keeping Fee of the FedEx Company as stated in our privacy terms &
condition page. Also be informed that your colleague wished to pay for the
Security Keeping charges, but we do not accept such payments considering
the fact that all items & packages that is registered with us have a time
limitation and we cannot accept payment without knowing when you will be
picking up the package or even respond to us. So we cannot take the risk
to have accepted such a 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 foremos 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 FedEx
Delivery Post) with the details given below:

Contact Person: Mr. Micheal Douglas.
Email: michealdouglas1@live.com
Tel:+234 8050745939.

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
necessary payment procedure so that you can effect the payment for the
Security Keeping Fees. As soon as they confirm your payment of £105 GBP
which is equivalent to $210 USD, they shall immediately dispatch your
package to the designated address. It usually takes 72 Hours being an
express delivery service.

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

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Margaret Blaire.
FedEx Online Management Team.
All rights reserved. © 1995-2008 FedEx.


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