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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: "Mr.John Eze " <office_office2@rocketmail.com>
Reply-To: upsoffice2@ymail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:31:10 +0700
Subject: Welcome to 2012 Urgent Reply of Good News



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Attn:Sir

REPUBLIC OF BENIN COTONOU, PAYMENT NOTIFICATION This is to bring to
your notice that, I have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery
of your ATM Card. I paid it because the ATM Card 8119 $2.5m, has less
three days to expire and when it expires, the money will go into
Government purse.With that I decided to help you pay the money so
that,the ATM Card will not expire, because I know when you get your
ATM Card definitely you must pay me back my money and even compensate
me for helping you.

Now i want you to contact UPS COURIER SERVICE with your Full Contact
informations 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 dumurrage might have increase.

They told me that their keeping fees is $45 per day and i deposited it
on Monday This week. Below is their Contact Informations, Contact
Person: Mr Michael Denis UPS Delivery Service

Email: (upsoffice2@ymail.com)
TO Contact Today to avoid increase of their keeping fees and let me
know once you receive your Card.

Best Regards.
Mr.John Eze

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