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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 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Express=AE?= <fedex@xbmail.com>
Reply-To: fedex-del@careceo.com
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 00:14:13 +0800
Subject: Stop Contacting Those People They Are Non Officials




RE:YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

DIRECTOR FRAUD VICTIMS/Stop Contacting Those People They Are Non Officials
RE=PAYMENT COMPENSATION OF /USD $1.2,000,000
REF/PAYMENT CODE: /UN/US/FGN/EU, /$1.2,000,000
Directors Name: Shirley Jackson Ph.d.
Company Name: FEDEX SAFE HANDLERS
WORLD COURIER COMPANY

ATTENTION: SIR/MADAM,

RE: UNITED NATIONS/NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT/AMERICAN GOVERNMENT/THE EUROPEAN
UNION 2009/2012 FRAUD VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations
who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes
those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud
Monitory Unit we have also noticed that over the past you have been
transacting with some imposters and fraudsters who have been impersonating
the likes of Prof. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick
Aziza, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks,
Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen
and some imposters claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.IMF

The Cyber Crime Division of the IMF gathered information from the Internet
Crime Complaint Centre (ICCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud
Complaint Centre (IFCC) of how some people have lost outrageous sums of
money to these imposters. As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop
communication with any one not referred to you by us.

We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment
totalling $1.2,000,000 be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card
with a maximum withdrawal limit of $5,000 a day which is powered by Visa
Card and can be used anywhere in the world were you see a Visa Card Logo
on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM). We have advised that this should be
the only way at which you are to receive your payment because it’s more
guaranteed, since over $5 billion was lost on fake check year 2008.

Secondly, you are hereby advice to stop dealing with some non-officials in
the bank and also couriers as this is an illegal act and will have to stop
if you so wish to receive your payment immediately. After the board
meeting held at our headquarters, we have resolved in finding a solution
to your problem, and as you may know, we have arranged your payment
through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe, America and Asia Pacific
Amsterdam, which is then instruction given by our president, Goodluck
Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan,(GCFR) Federal Republic of Nigeria.

We guarantee 100% receipt of your payment, because we have perfected
everything in regards to the release of your $1.2,000,000 States Dollars
to be 100% risk free and free from any hitches as it’s our duty to protect
citizens of the United States of America And also Other Countries. (This
is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts
owed to citizens of American which includes Inheritance, Contract,
Gambling/Lottery etc. are been cleared for the betterment of the current
economic status of the nation and its citizens as he bas always believed
“Our Time for Change has come” because “Change can happen”).

This card centre will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw
your money in an ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum is
($5,000.00) Five Thousand Us Dollars per transaction. So, if you like to
receive your fund this way, $5,000 usd for you to withdraw for a day and
each transaction is $ 5,000 usd minimum which you have to withdraw
$1.2,000 usd for one working day also be informed that the total amount in
the SWIFT ATM CARD is $1.2,000,000 Million United State of America
Dollars.

(1)Your Full Name:
(2)Your Address where you want the payment centre to send your ATM CARD.:
(3)Phone and Fax Number
(4)Age:
(5)Occupation:
(6)Your Nearest International Air Port in your City of residence:
(7)Company Name:

We shall be expecting to receive your information’s from you to verify and
commence delivery of your awarded ATM card, you have stop any further
communication with anybody or office. On this regards, do not hesitate to
contact me for more details and direction, and also please do update me
with any new development.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Best Regards,

Directors Name:Shirley Jackson Ph.d.
Company's Name: FedEx Express®
E-mail: fedex-del@careceo.com
WORLD COURIER COMPANY

Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming
to be in possession of your ATM card, you are hereby advice only to be in
contact with (Mrs. Shirley Jackson Ph.d) of the ATM card centre who is
the rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment and forward
any emails you get from impostors to this office via the above fax number
so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop cyber crime.

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