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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: iomlacen@funed.mg.gov.br
Reply-To: agent_fred@sify.com
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:04:55 -0500 (EST)
Subject: FedEx Online Team Management.

Dear Customer!
Kindly contact the delivery department (FedEx Delivery Post) with the
details given below:
FedEx Delivery Post
Contact Person: FRED MARK
Email: agent_fred@sify.com
Tel:+447045763047

Reasons:This is due to the fact that a friend of yours left a parcel
containing a Bank Draft of 1,050,000.00(Great British Pounds) and A Letter for
you.You are to act fast by providing the information requested below to enable
us make
the delivery ASAP.
FULL NAMES:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
SEX:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY:

Note that as soon as our Delivery Team confirms your informations, it will
take only one working day (24 hours)for your package to arrive it's
designated address.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 a sum of 125pounds to the FedEx
Delivery Department being full payment for the Security Keeping Fee of the
FedEx company as stated in our privacy terms & condition page. Also be
informed that your colleague wished to pay for the
Security Keeping charges, but we do not accept such payment considering
the facts that all items & packages that is registered with us having a
time limitation and we
cannot accept payment having known not when you will be picking up the
package or even responding to us.So we cannot take the risk to have
accepted such payment incase of any possible demurrage.
Ensure to contact the delivery department with the email address given
above and ensure to fill the above form as well to enable a successful
reconfirmation.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr ALLEN SMITH
FedEx Online Team Management.
All rights reserved. © 1995-2010 FedEx



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