419 scam: "Mega Million" <mega.millionsdept2009@gmail.com> Parcel contained an International Cashier Bank Draft

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "demurrage " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "insurance fee " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "security keeping fee" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
- "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
- "fedex.courierservice@london.ir" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- "fedex.courierservice@london.ir" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- "fedex.courierservice@london.ir" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- "fedex.courierservice@london.ir" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- "fedex.courierservice@london.ir" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- "fedex.courierservice@london.ir" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

Fraud email example:

From: "Mega Million" <mega.millionsdept2009@gmail.com>
Reply-To: claims.ukmegammillion@googlemail.com
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:12:18 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: Parcel contained an International Cashier Bank Draft

Good Day!!!

We have a Parcel contained an International Cashier
Bank Draft/Cheque worth the sum of Eight Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($800.000.00 USD) which will be
deliver to you at the moment as long as you provide
all the requirement information to the FedEx package
company before the parcel can be shipped to your own
residential address in your country. Further more,
you might be asking yourself how come this email,
cheque or draft, Anyway, your cheque was brought to
our office by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company via a
Lottery Fiduciary Claim Agent, signifying that you
are a rightful winner to their Lottery Award Promo
selected randomly. Your e-mail address was among the
Ten lucky email addresses which make your email
address as one of the lucky email address and they
have decided to send it to you true Federal Express
Delivery Service. What you have to do now, is to
contact our Delivery Department for immediate
dispatch to your residential address. For your
information, the Delivery fee and Security Keeping
fee & Shipping charges as well as the Vat fees have
been paid by the Lottery Fiduciary Company. You will
have to pay a sum of $520.00 USD to the FedEx
Delivery Department being payment for the Insurance
Fee of the FedEx Company. And all you have to do now
is to insured your winning parcel with the Insurance
Company which is registered with FedEx Accra Ghana.
Also be informed that the Lottery Fiduciary company
has paid the Delivery Fee of your winning & Security
Keeping also Shipping charges as well as the Vat
fees for you, but you have to pay for the Insurance
Fee, The reason why you are been ask to pay for the
Insurance Fee is because of the fact that all items
& packages that is not Insured by the insurance
company of Accra Ghana are not allowed to be
delivered to their delivery address. So you are to
pay the FedEx Courier Service the Insurance Fee to
enable the insurance company of Accra Ghana Insured
your winning's for delivery. As soon as you have
paid our delivery team will take your Insurance fee,
they will proceed to the insurance company of Accra
Ghana to Insure your winning funds, as soon as it is
been Insured by the insurance company of Accra Ghana
they shall commence with your delivery without any
delay and also we shall provide you with the
Insurance Certificate that was been given to us by
the insurance company of Accra Ghana as a proof that
you have Insured your winning which value the sum of
Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($800.000.00 USD).

The main reason why you are been ask to Insured your
Winning Funds is to certify that the Bank Draft is
not a Drug Affiliated Fund (DAF) neither is the
funds to sponsor Terrorism in your country this will
help you to avoid any form of query from the
Monetary Authority of your country. And also we can
not take the risk to carry out the delivery of your
funds incase of any possible demurrage so you have
to contact our delivery team and ask them how you
are going to make the payment of the Insurance fee
of your funds. We hope that you will respond to us
as soon as possible because if you fail to respond
until the expiry date of this package, we may refer
the package to the Accra Ghana Commission for
Welfare Or better still to Coca-Cola Bottling
Company as the package do not have a return address.
Kindly contact the delivery department (FedEx
Delivery Post) with the details given below:

FedEx Delivery Post Contact Person: Mr. Kelvin Green
Tel: +233543685278
Email: {fedex.courierservice@london.ir}

Do provide us with this information, and it's
mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and
telephone numbers to enable us commence with your
delivery and mostly to enable us insured your
Winning Funds.

=========================================
DO PROVIDE US WITH BELOW INFORMATION
=========================================
FULL NAMES:
NATIONALITY
OCCUPATION:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
STATE:
AGE:
COUNTRY:
SEX (M/F):
NEXT OF KINS:
========================================

Kindly complete the above form and summit it to the
delivery manager on:
(fedex.courierservice@london.ir) 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 Insurance Fee. As soon as
they confirm your payment of $520.00 USD, they will
not hesitate to work straight to the insurance
company and insure your winning for delivery. It
usually takes 24 hours being an over night delivery
service to deliver your winning funds to you after
it has been Insured by the insurance company. We
were instructed to email you due to the high
priority of your package we had to inform you
through the letter that was attach in your package,
we indeed personally sealed your Bank Draft we found
your email contact in the attached letter as the
recipient of the fore most package. Ensure to
contact our delivery department with the email
address given above and ensure to fill the form as
well to enable a successful reconfirmation and a
safe delivery of your winning.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Tracy Philip
FedEx Online Team Management

Good Day!!!

We have a Parcel contained an International Cashier
Bank Draft/Cheque worth the sum of Eight Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($800.000.00 USD) which will be
deliver to you at the moment as long as you provide
all the requirement information to the FedEx package
company before the parcel can be shipped to your own
residential address in your country. Further more,
you might be asking yourself how come this email,
cheque or draft, Anyway, your cheque was brought to
our office by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company via a
Lottery Fiduciary Claim Agent, signifying that you
are a rightful winner to their Lottery Award Promo
selected randomly. Your e-mail address was among the
Ten lucky email addresses which make your email
address as one of the lucky email address and they
have decided to send it to you true Federal Express
Delivery Service. What you have to do now, is to
contact our Delivery Department for immediate
dispatch to your residential address. For your
information, the Delivery fee and Security Keeping
fee & Shipping charges as well as the Vat fees have
been paid by the Lottery Fiduciary Company. You will
have to pay a sum of $520.00 USD to the FedEx
Delivery Department being payment for the Insurance
Fee of the FedEx Company. And all you have to do now
is to insured your winning parcel with the Insurance
Company which is registered with FedEx Accra Ghana.
Also be informed that the Lottery Fiduciary company
has paid the Delivery Fee of your winning & Security
Keeping also Shipping charges as well as the Vat
fees for you, but you have to pay for the Insurance
Fee, The reason why you are been ask to pay for the
Insurance Fee is because of the fact that all items
& packages that is not Insured by the insurance
company of Accra Ghana are not allowed to be
delivered to their delivery address. So you are to
pay the FedEx Courier Service the Insurance Fee to
enable the insurance company of Accra Ghana Insured
your winning's for delivery. As soon as you have
paid our delivery team will take your Insurance fee,
they will proceed to the insurance company of Accra
Ghana to Insure your winning funds, as soon as it is
been Insured by the insurance company of Accra Ghana
they shall commence with your delivery without any
delay and also we shall provide you with the
Insurance Certificate that was been given to us by
the insurance company of Accra Ghana as a proof that
you have Insured your winning which value the sum of
Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($800.000.00 USD).

The main reason why you are been ask to Insured your
Winning Funds is to certify that the Bank Draft is
not a Drug Affiliated Fund (DAF) neither is the
funds to sponsor Terrorism in your country this will
help you to avoid any form of query from the
Monetary Authority of your country. And also we can
not take the risk to carry out the delivery of your
funds incase of any possible demurrage so you have
to contact our delivery team and ask them how you
are going to make the payment of the Insurance fee
of your funds. We hope that you will respond to us
as soon as possible because if you fail to respond
until the expiry date of this package, we may refer
the package to the Accra Ghana Commission for
Welfare Or better still to Coca-Cola Bottling
Company as the package do not have a return address.
Kindly contact the delivery department (FedEx
Delivery Post) with the details given below:

FedEx Delivery Post Contact Person: Mr. Kelvin Green
Tel: +233543685278
Email: {fedex.courierservice@london.ir}

Do provide us with this information, and it's
mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and
telephone numbers to enable us commence with your
delivery and mostly to enable us insured your
Winning Funds.

=========================================
DO PROVIDE US WITH BELOW INFORMATION
=========================================
FULL NAMES:
NATIONALITY
OCCUPATION:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
STATE:
AGE:
COUNTRY:
SEX (M/F):
NEXT OF KINS:
========================================

Kindly complete the above form and summit it to the
delivery manager on:
(fedex.courierservice@london.ir) 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 Insurance Fee. As soon as
they confirm your payment of $520.00 USD, they will
not hesitate to work straight to the insurance
company and insure your winning for delivery. It
usually takes 24 hours being an over night delivery
service to deliver your winning funds to you after
it has been Insured by the insurance company. We
were instructed to email you due to the high
priority of your package we had to inform you
through the letter that was attach in your package,
we indeed personally sealed your Bank Draft we found
your email contact in the attached letter as the
recipient of the fore most package. Ensure to
contact our delivery department with the email
address given above and ensure to fill the form as
well to enable a successful reconfirmation and a
safe delivery of your winning.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Tracy Philip
FedEx Online Team Management

Good Day!!!

We have a Parcel contained an International Cashier
Bank Draft/Cheque worth the sum of Eight Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($800.000.00 USD) which will be
deliver to you at the moment as long as you provide
all the requirement information to the FedEx package
company before the parcel can be shipped to your own
residential address in your country. Further more,
you might be asking yourself how come this email,
cheque or draft, Anyway, your cheque was brought to
our office by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company via a
Lottery Fiduciary Claim Agent, signifying that you
are a rightful winner to their Lottery Award Promo
selected randomly. Your e-mail address was among the
Ten lucky email addresses which make your email
address as one of the lucky email address and they
have decided to send it to you true Federal Express
Delivery Service. What you have to do now, is to
contact our Delivery Department for immediate
dispatch to your residential address. For your
information, the Delivery fee and Security Keeping
fee & Shipping charges as well as the Vat fees have
been paid by the Lottery Fiduciary Company. You will
have to pay a sum of $520.00 USD to the FedEx
Delivery Department being payment for the Insurance
Fee of the FedEx Company. And all you have to do now
is to insured your winning parcel with the Insurance
Company which is registered with FedEx Accra Ghana.
Also be informed that the Lottery Fiduciary company
has paid the Delivery Fee of your winning & Security
Keeping also Shipping charges as well as the Vat
fees for you, but you have to pay for the Insurance
Fee, The reason why you are been ask to pay for the
Insurance Fee is because of the fact that all items
& packages that is not Insured by the insurance
company of Accra Ghana are not allowed to be
delivered to their delivery address. So you are to
pay the FedEx Courier Service the Insurance Fee to
enable the insurance company of Accra Ghana Insured
your winning's for delivery. As soon as you have
paid our delivery team will take your Insurance fee,
they will proceed to the insurance company of Accra
Ghana to Insure your winning funds, as soon as it is
been Insured by the insurance company of Accra Ghana
they shall commence with your delivery without any
delay and also we shall provide you with the
Insurance Certificate that was been given to us by
the insurance company of Accra Ghana as a proof that
you have Insured your winning which value the sum of
Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($800.000.00 USD).

The main reason why you are been ask to Insured your
Winning Funds is to certify that the Bank Draft is
not a Drug Affiliated Fund (DAF) neither is the
funds to sponsor Terrorism in your country this will
help you to avoid any form of query from the
Monetary Authority of your country. And also we can
not take the risk to carry out the delivery of your
funds incase of any possible demurrage so you have
to contact our delivery team and ask them how you
are going to make the payment of the Insurance fee
of your funds. We hope that you will respond to us
as soon as possible because if you fail to respond
until the expiry date of this package, we may refer
the package to the Accra Ghana Commission for
Welfare Or better still to Coca-Cola Bottling
Company as the package do not have a return address.
Kindly contact the delivery department (FedEx
Delivery Post) with the details given below:

FedEx Delivery Post Contact Person: Mr. Kelvin Green
Tel: +233543685278
Email: {fedex.courierservice@london.ir}

Do provide us with this information, and it's
mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and
telephone numbers to enable us commence with your
delivery and mostly to enable us insured your
Winning Funds.

=========================================
DO PROVIDE US WITH BELOW INFORMATION
=========================================
FULL NAMES:
NATIONALITY
OCCUPATION:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
STATE:
AGE:
COUNTRY:
SEX (M/F):
NEXT OF KINS:
========================================

Kindly complete the above form and summit it to the
delivery manager on:
(fedex.courierservice@london.ir) 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 Insurance Fee. As soon as
they confirm your payment of $520.00 USD, they will
not hesitate to work straight to the insurance
company and insure your winning for delivery. It
usually takes 24 hours being an over night delivery
service to deliver your winning funds to you after
it has been Insured by the insurance company. We
were instructed to email you due to the high
priority of your package we had to inform you
through the letter that was attach in your package,
we indeed personally sealed your Bank Draft we found
your email contact in the attached letter as the
recipient of the fore most package. Ensure to
contact our delivery department with the email
address given above and ensure to fill the form as
well to enable a successful reconfirmation and a
safe delivery of your winning.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Tracy Philip
FedEx Online Team Management

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