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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)
Reply-To: c_cv@hotmail.fr
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:45:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONTACT CHRONOPOST COURIER SERVICES URGENT


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mslamark02@yahoo.com



- Dear Friend,How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?,I have beenwaiting 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 acouple of weeks now.Then I went to the bank to confirm if the draft hasexpired or getting near to expire and Mr.James Adams the Director Bank ofAfrica told me that before the draft will get to your hand that it willexpire. So I told him to cash the $4,500.000 USD UNITED STATES DOLLARS tocash payment to avoid loosing this funds under expiration as I will be outof the country for 4 Months Course and I will not come back till ending ofOctober 2008. What you have to do now is to contact CHRONOPOST COURIER SERVICES as soonas possible to know when they will deliver your Consignmen to you becauseof the expiring date. For your information, I have paid for the deliveringCharge and Insurance premium.The only money you will send to theCHRONOPOST COURIER SERVICES to deliver your Consignment direct to yourAddress in your country is $105.00 only being Security Keeping Fee of theCourier Company so far. Again, dont be deceived by anybody to pay anyother money except $105.00 .I would have paid that but they said nobecause they dont know when you will contact them and in case ofdemurage.You have to contact CHRONOPOST COURIER SERVICES now for thedelivery of your Consignment with their email as c_cv@hotmail.fr Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your address and Direct telephonenumber to them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask them togive you the tracking number to enable you track your package over thereand know when it will get to your address.Finally, Endaevour to indicatethis CODE (CP0081) which will prove that you are the owner of the packagedeposited in their company.Their email address again is c_cv@hotmail.frand the Manager is Dr Patrick Martins. Also note that I registered it as a BOX of Africa Arts materials. They didnot know the contents was money. This is to avoid them delaying with theBOX. Yours Faithfully,Mrs Lavida Mark


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