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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:07:04 +0300
Subject: Good news for you


Hello once Again

I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Conformable
Bank Draft of $1.5m 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 Dr. Wilson the
Director of Africa Development Bank told me that before the draft will
get to your hand that it will expire also many Foreign banks are
reluctant to honor Bank Draft usually come from Africa,so he decided
that it would be better that he convert the Bank Draft into cash and
packaged your funds of USD1.5 Million in form of Personal Diplomatic
Package and send it to you via special diplomatic means and you will
receive your funds in your Country.

So I told him to cash the $1.5m USD UNITED STATES DOLLARS to cash
payment to avoid losing this funds since Foreign banks are reluctant
to honor Bank Draft that comes from Africa as I will be out of the
country for a 3 Months Courseand I will not come back till ending of
December 2008.

What you have to do now is to contact wanlidacourierextn@voila.fr
Company as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your
Package to you because of the expiring date. For your information, I
have paid for the delivering Charge, Insurance premium.


The only money you will send to the Courier Company to deliver your
Package direct to your postal Address in your country is ($150.00 US)
One Hundred & Five United States Dollars only being Security Keeping
Fee of the Courier Company so far, I would have paid that but they
said no because they don't know when you will contact them and in case
of demurrage.

You are advice to contact R. M. Wanlida Courier Company now for the
delivery of your fund with your deposit SECURITY CODE
SCTC/2001DHX/567/;

COMPANY NAME: WAN LI DA COURIER EXTENSION
CONTACT DIRECTOR IN CHARGE: MR NANA ABEY
CONTACT EMAIL:wanlidacourierextn@voila.fr
Telephone +233-206490891
 

You Are To Forward The Following Informations To Them;

1. YOUR FULL NAME:
2. YOUR HOME OR COMPANY ADDRESS:
3. YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER:

Let me repeat again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this
mail on this email (wanlidacourierextn@voila.fr ) to avoid any further
delay and remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee of $150.00
US Dollars for their immediate action.

Note this. The Courier Company doesn't know the contents of the
Package. I registered it as a BOX of Africa cloths. They did not know
the contents were money. This is to avoid them delaying with the BOX.
Don't let them know that box contents money ok.

Thanks and God bless you and your family.

Peter Robert.







بريد نسيجhttp://mail.naseej.com




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