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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: Don Philip <de_escalade@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: postcourierservice@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 07:50:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONTACT POST COURIER SERVICE FOR YOUR PACKAGE




Hello Dear Friend,
I have Paid the registrations fee for your cheque .but the manager of Simpanan National Bank, Malaysia, told me that before the cheque will get to you that it will expire. So i told him to cash US$1.5million all the necessary arrangement of delivering the US$1.5million in cash was made with post courier service,This is the information they need to deliver your package to you.
 
CONTACT PERSON ATTN: Mr. Muru Thirupathy  (Director)
CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS : (  postcourierservice@gmail.com  )
CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBERS  Tel:+601 667 27465
Please, Send them your contacts information to able them locate you immediately they arrived in your country with your package.This is what they need from you.
1.YOUR FULL NAME............2.YOUR COUNTRY........... 3.YOUR HOME ADDRESS..............
4.YOUR CURRENT HOME AND CELL TELEPHONE NUMBER......... 5.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE..........
6.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE............
Please make sure you send this needed information to the Director post courier service, Branch,Mr. Muru Thirupathy (Director) with the E-mail address given to you. Note.post courier service, don't know the contents of the package.i register it as 1 Box Sensitive Photographic Film Material .
They don't know that the contents was money.this is to avoid them delaying with the package.You can also call the director post courier service with this line Tel+601 667 27465
Waiting for your urgent response
Best Regard
Mr Don Philip.



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