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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: "Mrs. Lisa Brown." <info@ng.org>
Reply-To: contactfedexcourierservice01@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 02:38:29 +0300
Subject: This mail is from FEDEX COURIER DELIVERY UNIT.

Dear Customer,

This mail is from FEDEX COURIER DELIVERY UNIT.

Your comfirmable Bank Draft of $700.00 United States Dollars is yet to be
claimed, The Certified bank draft was deposited here, by Coca cola company
here in Nigeria,been the prize won in their West Africa regional promo in
SEPTEBER 2009, The sponsors left your prize along with a parcel containing
the winning certificate and other relevant documents.

Special Order. What you have to do now,is to contact our Delivery Department
for immediate dispatchment of your package to your residential address.Note
that as soon as our Delivery Team confirms your informations,it will take
only two working days (48 hours) for your package to arrived 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 the sum of $110 US
Dollars being full payment for the Security Keeping Fee of your parcel so far
to the security company affiliated to FedEx Company where your parcel has
been for the past weeks as stated in our privacy terms & condition page. 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 our head offices as the package do not have a return address.we do
not accept C.O.D because it is not the duty of the postman to accept payment,
but FedEx Delivery Services here in Nigeria.

Below is the shipment officer contact information including his email address
with the parcel reference number,note that without you indicating your parcel
number as listed below the FedEx delivery services will not listen to you,we
will imagining if you want to steal another persons parcel.

Contact Person: Mr .Ray Darrick
Email Address: contactfedexcourierservice01@yahoo.com.hk

Required Details
1 Your Full Name:
2 Delivery Address:
3 Telephone:

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address and Direct
telephone number to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask for your
tracking number to enable you track your package over there and know when it
will get to your address.

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 of $110 US Dollars for immediate Dispatch/shipment. As
soon as we confirm your payment receipt of $110 USD, We shall immediately
forward it to the security company for the release of your parcel and will
also not hesitate to dispatch your package as well as the attached letter and
a tracking number will be given to you.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Lisa Brown.
Office Tel: +2348078669879
Coca-Cola Nigeria
Public Relations Officer. (P.R.O).
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