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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: David <johndavid76@rocketmail.com>
Reply-To: tonyaku04@sify.com
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:50:23 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Pay Urgent Attention Please:


Pay Urgent Attention Please:
 
This is to bring to your notice that your Funds have been loaded into an ATM Card and registered with Express Post Courier Company for onward shipment to your address. The decision to load your Funds into an ATM Card was born out of the fact that your Bank Draft valued US$1,200,000.00 is nearing expiration, so i decided to apply for your funds to be laoded into an ATM Card to avoid you loosing the funds to government as an unclaimed funds. The Registration and Delivery Charge of the parcel to your address has been paid by our institution. The Institution decided to pay the Registration and shipment fees for all beneficiaries inorder to avoid further delay in claiming their respective ATM Cards.

Now i want you to contact Express Post Courier Company with your Full Contact informations and Direct Telephone number, so that they can deliver your ATM Card to your address without any delay. Like i stated earlier, the delivery charges has been paid but we did not pay their official security keeping fees since they refused to accept because, they do not know when you are going to contact them for the shipment. So have in mind that the dumurrage will be increasing if you delay to contact them. They told me that their Security keeping fees is US$45 per day and the parcel was registered Yesterday. Below is their Contact Informations:
 
Contact Person: Williams Kewata
Director Foreign Operations
Email: ( global_basic_courier4747@yahoo.fr )

Contact them Today to avoid accumulation of more security keeping fees and let me know once you receive your Card. Most importantly, make sure that you reconfirm your Current address and Direct telephone number to them to avoid any mistake on the Delivery. Also ask them to give you the tracking number to enable you track your package over there and know when it will get to your address. Let me repeat, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any further delay that will lead to further accumulation of more charges.

Thanks and have a nice day.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr. John David

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