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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: "Mr. Scott McDonald" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wmnt1@post.ro>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 04:25:15 +0100
Subject: I Have Paid The Delivery Charges Today!

Dear Friend

I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your consignment but i did not heard anything from you since then, I have deposited the US$5,000,000.00 with the Fastway Courier Services Ghana here in Ghana, because I traveled to Japan to see my boss and I will not come back till next year ending.

I have arranged with the Fastway Courier Services Ghana to get your US$5,000,000.00 to you this month and they will be coming to you with the fund inside black portfolio, I would have deposited the fund with Bank for transfer into your own account but the procedure of Bank is too much and they will required enough fee.

I drop your delivery details with the Fastway Courier Services Ghana but I will like you to re-confirm the information to them again so that they will not be any mistake when coming with the fund. Send the below information to the Fastway Courier Services Ghana.

(1)Full name:
(2)Address:
(3)Tel:

I want you to know that you have all right to declare how you want to receive your fund, I would have prefer the fund to be transfer to you but I make some searches about the Bank transfer and they told me that it will cost you the sum of US$1900 to transfer the US$5,000,000.00 into your account. But I have deposited the US$5,000,000.00 in cash to the Fastway Courier Services Ghana, below is the Fastway Courier Services Ghana contact.

Director: Mr. Paul Kweme
Tel: +233-548-997-975
Email: wmnt1@post.ro

I have paid the delivery charges and insurance fee to the Fastway Courier Services Ghana. The only Money that the Fastway Courier Services Ghana will require from you is $190 Dollars for demurrage, if you can pay the $190 Dollars to them, they will proceed and get the US$5,000,000.00 to you in your Country.

Please if you want to contact the Fastway Courier Services Ghana, you are to contact them with your portfolio code number which is (PPL093RSS) and your address where you want them to deliver the cash to. You are to pay the $190 to the Fastway Courier Services Ghana to enable them to proceed and get the cash to you, don't fail to resend your information to them for your own good.

Regards,

Mr. Scott McDonald

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