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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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Fraud email example:

From: "r Evely Benz" <office@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: unitesparcelservice@mail.mn
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:18:45 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: CONTACT UPS COURIER COMPANY

Attn Benficiary

I,AM, Dr Evely Benz, the Driector of Credit Bank Benin Republic. This is
to bring to your notice that, I, have paid the fee of your ATM CARD,
because the ATM-card worth $2.4,M USD has less a month to expire and when
it expires the money will go into Government reserve. With that I decided
to help you pay the money so that the ATM CARD will not expire,because, I
know when you get your ATM CARD definitely you must compensate me.

Now, your ATM CARD has been deposited with ups Courier for delivery
direct to your doorstep.therefore, I, want you to contact ups Courier
Company with your Full Contact informations, so that they can deliver your
ATM CARD to your designated address without any delay. Like I, stated
earlier,

The delivery charges has been paid but i did not pay their official
keeping fees since they refused. because, the Reasons they refusal is that
they do not know when you will contact them. As of now, I, deposited it
on 20th July 2009 therefore, try to contact them immedaitly to aviod any
increase the securitye keeping fee ok.

Below is their Contact Informations,
Contact Person: Dr Michelle Godwin
UPS Courier Company
Email: unitesparcelservice@mail.mn
Tel: +22993847211
let me know immediately you rececived your atm card.

Yours Sincerly ,
Dr Evely Benz



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