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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. Linda Powel" <notice@wbp.com>
Reply-To: firstflights@9.cn
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:54:11 +0300
Subject: CONTACT FIRST FLIGHT COURIER FOR YOUR PARCEL

Greeting,



Congratulations to you as we bring your notice the results of the world Bank
promo and your email Address was selected through a computer ballot
system drawn
We are happy to inform you that your email won $800.000.00 United States
Dollars. I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable
Bank Draft of $800.000.00 United States Dollars, but I did not hear from you
since that time. Then I went and deposited the Draft with FIRST FLIGHTS
DELIVERY,West Africa, I travelled out of the country for a 3 Months
Course and I
will not come back till end of March 2010.

What you have to do now is to contact the FIRST FLIGHTS DELIVERY 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
Charges,Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque showing
that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorist attack in your
Country. Again, I would have paid for the security keeping fee but
they said no
because they don't know when you will contact them and in case of
demurrage.You
have to contact the FIRST FLIGHTS DELIVERY with the following informations:

First name:
Last Name:
Telephone:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
address:



Dispatch Director: Mr. James Mark
Email Address: firstflights@9.cn
Tel:+2348134229903

You are advice to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any
further delay and remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee of
$250.00 US
Dollars for their immediate action.You should also let me know through
email as
soon as you receive your Draft.



Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Linda Powel

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