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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" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <officeinfo14@gmx.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:46:47 +0100
Subject: YOUR PARCEL WITH FEDEX

Attention:

CLAIM NOTIFICATION.
This is to notify you that your parcel is still in our possession, this parcel contained an International Cashier Bank Draft/Cheque worth the sum of $950,000.00(Nine Hundred $ Fifthy Thousand USA dollars)only and it is ready for delivery to your door step. Meanwhile, before the delivery or shipment will take place, you are advice to send to us the following data as stated below:

1.Your Name
2.Address
3.Telephone


The above requested information will enable us deliver your parcel correctly without any mistake or delivering your parcel to a wrong person. Further more, you might be asking yourself how come this email, cheque or draft,Anyway, your cheque was brought to this office by a Lottery Fiduciary Agent Or Claim Agent, signifying that you are a rightful winner to their Lottery Award selected randomly from 10 lucky email addresses which your email address is one of the lucky email address.

FedEx courier service company mailing you as per your parcel that was brought to this company to be delivered to you by lottery groups, along the delivery process that brought a misunderstanding between you and the lottery claim agent and in regards of their request as per their insurance certificate cost, tax fee and lots of other universal cops and drug searches which happened to be the course of your parcel being pending for the past months/one year.

Meanwhile we are hereby happy to inform you that the FedEx Company has finalized and resolved the whole issued with the legal offices like the International Monetary of Funds(IMF),and the Internal Revenue Service(IRS) office, the company organization has also listed 24 valuable parcel to be intact in their office after the released of the parcel? from universal cops and drug searches.We are happy to inform you once again that your parcel that contains the sum of $950,000.00 is among the 24 parcel listed which is now in our office and also with your name as the receiver despite that we lost your private residential address which is an indication that you are now required to re-send your residential address, telephone as stated above back to the FedEx company where your parcel can be delivered to you without hesitation.

Meanwhile be informed that thefiduciary agent still owes this company the sum of $355.00 before this time which is not just for delivery but with the immigration and customs stamp duty inclusive.

Without hesitations you are to pay for just the balance left by your sender since we have lost his contact, this payment have to be via Western Union Money Transfer with the below payment information so that your parcel can be delivered to your residential address before it accumulates heavy a dumurrage.

We assure you that your parcel will arrive at your country in 48 hours from time of effecting the required minor fees.


FedEx provides access to a growing global market place through a network of supply chain, transportation, business and related information services.



PAYMENT INFORMATION FOR THE IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS STAMP DUTY CHARGES BEFORE DELIVERY TAKES PLACE IS AS FOLLOWS:

Receivers Name: PIUS CABA
Senders Name: ------------?
Text Question: BEST COLOUR
Answer: RED
Location; LAGOS- NIGERIA.
MTCN Number... ???
Amount to be sent: $355us dollars.

Please you have to send the full payment information including the MTCN Number for we to fully proceed on your delivery

E-mail: (officeinfo14@gmx.com) get back to Us With The Payment Of $355 for the Customs and Immigration Clearance and Stampt Duty So That We Can Proceed With The Delivery Today.

WAITING TO READ YOUR E-MAIL.



FEDEX COURIER MANAGING DIRECTOR..
MRS MARY COLLINS

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