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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: Debt Management Office <directorate@mmc-static3.com>
Reply-To: parliament1@europe.com
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:34:14 -0400
Subject: Awaiting.



DEBT MANAGEMENT OFFICE
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT
College Rd, Ash, Gu12 5db,
Ref: ANB/IFT/0789/08 RC: 2354523

Attn: FUND BENEFICIARY;
Delivery of CONSIGNMENT.
Please I urgently need your confirmation; for the past (5) five days on
delivery of CONSIGNMENTS CARGO with some DMO DIPLOMATS as they arrived
into the
country. They will be leaving for our Regional Office, within another (4)
days,to ABU-DHABI, U.A.E And the reason I am contacting you is because one of
the payment that they were ask to deliver cannot be transacted due to the
beneficiary was not reached; the amount is €8.2Million Euros which is
almost in
the same category with your own scheduled payment. As a DELEGATE APPOINTEE; I
have discussed with the DIPLOMATS that has the sole responsibility on these
payment deliveries that I have someone we can pay off the money so they don't
take much risk going around countries with the consignment cargo
voucher. So if
this will interest you I will urgently need you to contact me. And as soon as
you contact me, we will then discuss on the delivery status, before the cargo
departure at terminal. This is an opportunity for you so don't loose it, also
depending on the agreed arrangement we can make delivery directly to your
bankers or from Diplomatic trust Account we can give instruction on BANK
TRANSFER. But on delivery, there will be a diplomatic immunity that will
warrant the airport authority not to search the diplomats cargo,
unless reverse
is the case that the beneficiary shows up for collection at the airport then
the DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY is automatically revoked and it will be opened. Which
is the reason why is always preferable that DIPLOMATS deliver consignment by
themselves to the designated address or bank. Please contact me with an
immediate answer.

Private: (ceballosdahomel@post.com)
office: directorate@mmc-static3.com
Tel: 44 2088199432

Yours Sincerely,
Dahomel Ceballos,
Delegate Appointees Coordinator
Debt Management Office.

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