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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 Company" <fedexdelivery@fedexint.co.com>
Reply-To: fedxcp@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:57:28 -0400
Subject: YOUR INHERITANCE FUND IS READY FOR YOU

Services. Aba. Aba 8 Factory Road ....
FedEx Benin Head Office 16 International
Airport Road Parakou, Benin Republic.
fedexcompany@kimo.com
Phone Number: +229 96 27 40 73

Dear Customer
We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirmed Package that is
registered with us for shipping to your residential location. We thought that
the sender gave you our contact details and that you would have contacted us
by now. We would also let you know that a letter is also attached to your
package. However, we cannot quote its content to you via E-mail for privacy
reasons. We understand that the content of your package itself is a Bank Draft
worth Twenty Five Million United State Dollars ($2.500,000.00 USD); in FedEx
we do not ship money in CASH or in CHEQUES but in Bank Drafts only.


The package is registered with us for mailing by your colleague, and your
colleague explained that he is from the United States but he is in Parakou,
Benin Republic for over three (3) month surveying Project. For he is working
with a consulting firm in Benin Rep West Africa, We are sending you this
E-mail because your package is been registered on a Special Order.
What you have to do now, is to contact our Delivery Department for the
immediate dispatch of your package to your residential address.
Note that as soon as our Delivery Team confirms your information, it will only
take us three working days (72 hours) for your package to arrive at its
designated destination. For your information, the VAT & Shipping charges as
well as Insurance fees have been paid by your colleague before your package
was registered.

Note that the payment that is made on the Insurance, Premium & Clearance
Certificates, are to certify that the Bank Draft is not a Drug Affiliated Fund
(DAF) neither is it funds to sponsor Terrorism in your country. This will help
you avoid any form of query from the Monetary Authority of your country.
However, you will have to pay a sum of $65 US Dollars to the FedEx Delivery
Department for the Security Keeping Fee of the FedEx Company as stated in our
privacy terms & condition page. Also be informed that your colleague wished to
pay for the Security Keeping charges, but we do not accept such payments
considering the facts that all items & packages registered with us has a time
limitation and we cannot accept payment not knowing when you will be picking
up the package or even respond to us. So we cannot take the risk to have
accepted such payment in case of any possible demurrage.

Kindly note that your colleague did not leave us with any further information,
We hope that you send your response to us as soon as possible because if you
fail to respond until the expiry date of the foremost package, we may refer
the package to the British Commission for Welfare as the package those not
have a return address. Kindly contact the delivery department (FedEx Delivery
Post) with the details given below:

FedEx Delivery Post
Contact Person: David Moore
Phone Number: +229 96 27 40 73
Email: fedexcompany@kimo.com


Kindly complete the below form and send it to the email address given above.

This is mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone numbers.

FULL NAMES:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
COUNTRY:

USE BELOW INFORMATION TO SEND THE FEE URGENT TODAY;
PAYMENT INFORMATION (WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER).

RECEIVERS NAME:......................... ....Chinedu Okafor
COUNTRY:...................... ..............Benin Republic
CITY:............................... ........Cotonou
QUESTION:..................... ..............How Soon?
ANSWER:......................................Urgent.
AMOUNT:......................................$65USD
PAYMENT DETAILS TO SEND TO US

Money transfer control number (MTCN)
Senders Name
Senders address.

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
Security Keeping Fees. As soon as they confirm your payment receipt of $85 US
Dollars, They will not hesitate to dispatch your package as well as the
attached letter to your residence. Which usually takes 72 hours being an over
night delivery service.

Note: that we were not instructed to email you, but due to the high priority
of your package we had to inform you as your sender did not leave us with his
phone number because he stated that he just arrived Japan for business project
and he has not gotten a phone yet.

We personally sealed your Bank Draft and we found your email contact in the
attached letter as the recipient of the foremost package.
Ensure to contact the delivery department with the email address given above
and ensure to fill the above form as well to enable a successful reconfirmation.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. David Moore.
FedEx Delivery Post.
Phone Number : +229 96 27 40 73
fedexcompany@kimo.com

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