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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: "ZENITH BANK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <upscouriergroup@yahoo.cn>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:30:34 -0600
Subject: ZENITH BANK INTERNATIONAL.

ZENITH BANK INTERNATIONAL.
zenith Heights Plot 87 Ajose Adeogun Street,
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

Attn: Payment Notification,

This is to bring to your notice that,We have activation Your Atm Card . We activation it because the ATM Card

8119 1.5m used, has less three days to expire and when it expires, the money will go into Government purse.

With that We Zenith decided to help you activate the card so that the ATM will not expire, because I know

when you get your ATM definitely you must be happy and even compensate me for helping you.

Now, I want you to contact UPS Delivery Service with your Full Contact information’s so that they can deliver

your Card to your designated address without any delay. Like I stated earlier, the delivery charges has been

paid but I did not pay their official keeping fees since they refused. They refused and the reason is that

they do not know when you are going to contact them and demurrage might have increase.

They told me that their keeping fee is 75usd per day and I deposited it on Monday this week.

Below is their Contact Information’s,
Contact Person: Tony Okoye
UPS Delivery Service
Email: (upscouriergroup@yahoo.cn)
Tel; +2347089397999

Contact them Today to avoid increase of their keeping fees and let me know once you receive your ATM Card.
Yours
MR.Gipson Ohms
ATM OFFICE
ZENITH BANK INTERNATIONAL.

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