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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: "couriersfedex90@yahoo.com.hk" <couriersfedex90@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:52:55 -0430 (VET)
Subject: YOUR UNCLAIMED BANK DRAFT

Greetings!!!

We have since being waiting for you to contact us regarding the claim
of your bank draft/funds, after waiting several months, running into
years, we decided to engage in a sustained campaign of correspondence
and active tracing, just to reach
you and considering the fact that there is no stated next of kin in
the
claims file, the government intends to confiscate these unclaimed
funds
of
yours in a short time, since you have not come forward to redeem your
claims.

The above move by the government comes ahead of plans to transfer all
unclaimed bank draft/funds, and funds in dormant bank draft into
government coffers
under its unclaimed assets scheme, in which these monies released
would
then be used to fund community projects.

Your bank draft is currently recorded on the unclaimed assets register
- a database holding details of all forgotten savings-deposits,
investments and unclaimed premium bond prizes.

You have been given 5 working days to File for(claim) your unclaimed
parcel containing your confirmable Bank Draft or lose your unclaimed
Confirmable
Bank Draft for 1,000,000 Great Britain Pounds .Please reconfirm your
full details to FedEx Courier Services the official Grant Delivery
Company for
the immediate delivery of parcel containing your 1,000,000 Great
Britain Pounds confirmable Bank Draft and other releviant Grant
Certificates to you
because as of now i have travelled for a course in which i will be
back
by the end of this year

Names in full,.............
Residential ..............
Country,...................
Mobile No,..........
Nationality............
Occupation:................

Please note that all the courier delivering charges covering the
Insurance,Delivery and Non-Scan Airport upliftment Charges have been
paid for and the only fee you are to pay to Fedex Express to enable
them
quickly
deliver your parcel to you is your Parcel Security Keeping fee of £190
.I would have paid for Security Keeping fee but they said no because
they don't know when you will be Contacting them and also in case of
demurrage You have to contact the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE now for the
delivery of your Draft with this information below:

Contact Person: Mr.Jonathan Robert
OF THE FEDEX COURIER SERVICE ENGLAND
E-mail:couriersfedex64@yahoo.com.hk
Office line:+447045776534

For the immediate delivery of Confirmable Bank Draft 1,000,000 Great
Britain Pounds and other releviant Grant Certificates to you and to
avoid any
further delay do remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee
£190for their
immediate action.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Jessica Matthew

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