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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: "FedEx Express Co-operation®" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fedex.express9973@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 04:54:49 -0800
Subject: Greetings From FedEx Delivery Company

Dear Customer!

We have a Package containing an International Cashier Bank Draft/Cheque
worth the sum of ($720.000.00USD) from LG Company which will be deliver
to you as long as you provide all the requirement information to the
FedEx Delivery company Delivery Post before the parcel can be shipped
to your own residential address in your country. Further more, you might
be asking yourself how come this email,Anyway your Bank draft was brought
to our office by the LG Company via their Lottery Fiduciary Claim Agent,
signifying that you are a rightful winner to their Lottery Award Promo
2012 selected randomly which is powered by the LG Company and the Nigeria
Government, and Your e-mail address was among the lucky winners of the LG
Company.

What you have to do now is to contact our Delivery Department for
immediate dispatch of your package to your residential address. For your
information,the LG Company Fiduciary Agent has paid the Delivery fee and
Security Keeping fee & Shipping charges as well as the Vat fees but we
did not receive the payment of Insurance fees from them due to the fact
that we don't know when you will be contacting us via email for your
package,so you will have to pay the sum of $125 USD to the FedEx
Delivery Department for the Insurance Fee. All you need to do is to
insure your winning Package with the Nigeria Insurance Company, which is
registered with FedEx Courier Company Nigeria.The reason why you have
been ask to pay for the Insurance Fee is that all items & packages that
is not Insured by the insurance company of Nigeria are not allowed to
be delivered to their delivery address. So you are to pay the FedEx
Courier Company Nigeria the Insurance Fee to enable the insurance
company of Nigeria Insured your winnings for delivery. And also we can
not take the risk to carry out the delivery of your package incase of
any possible demurrage, so you have to contact our delivery team and
ask them how you are going to make the payment of the Insurance fee of
your funds to our delivery department.

As soon as you effect the payment of $125 USD to our Delivery department
Account Officer and our delivery team will proceed to the insurance
company of Nigeria to Insure your winning package, and they shall commence
with the delivery of your package to you without any delay and also we
shall provide you via email with the Insurance Certificate Scanned copy
as a proof. Kindly complete the below form and send it to the FEDEX
DELIVERY DEPARTMENT with the below informations. This is mandatory
to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone numbers.
=========================================
FULL NAME-------------RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS----------------
TEL. NUMBER------------------COUNTRY----------------
=========================================
FedEx DELIVERY POST
Senior Delivery Officer's Name: Sir. Kelvin Hamilton.
Email: fedEx-express.delivery.services@w.cn
fedex.express9973@yahoo.com.hk
Phone Number: +234 8138 371 226
=========================================
THE CONTENT OF YOUR PACKAGE IS LISTED BELOW:
1. WINNING CHEQUE VALUED THE SUM OF ($720.000.00 U.S.D)
2. LG Company Branded Baseball cap.
3. LG Company T-shirt,
4.CLEAR SOURCE OF FUNDS CERTIFICATES (C.S.F.C.)
5.CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN OF FUNDS(C.O.F.)

Kindly complete the above form and summit it to the delivery manager on:
(fedex.express9973@yahoo.com.hk) As soon as your details are received, our
delivery team will give you the necessary payment procedure so that you
can effect the payment for the Insurance Fee.As soon as they confirm
your payment of $125 USD, they will not hesitate to work straight to
the insurance company and insure your winning for delivery.

Sorry if you received this letter in your spam,Due to recent connection
error. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Have a great day.

Yours Faithfully,
FedEx Express Co-operation®
FedEx Online Team Management®
© Copy Right Reserved 1994-2012.

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