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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: "Dear Beneficiary," <dhl_couriercompany2@ymail.com>
Reply-To: fedexcservice@sunumail.sn
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:49:44 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Dear Beneficiary, HAPPY WEEK END.




Dear Beneficiary,

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?  Again This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of your fund transfer through the western union network, we have credited your total sum of $1.5millon valid fund into an ATM MASTER CARD and I have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery of the ATM Card To you, I paid it because the ATM Card worth of $1.5millon which I have registered for delivery yesterday has less than 7 days to expire in the custody of the FedEx Company and when it expires, the money will go into Federal Government treasury account.

With that we decided to help you pay off the money so that the ATM Card will not expire, because I trust that when you receive your ATM Card definitely you must pay me back my money and even compensate me for helping you.

I was calling the telephone number you provided then, but unavailable to confirm if you still living in your formal address in for the registration of the ATM Card.

Now I want you to contact FedEx Express Delivery with your physical address you desire the delivery to be made so that they can deliver your ATM Card to your designated address without any delay.

Like I stated earlier, the crediting re-activation, delivery and the company registration charges has been paid by me, 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 the demurrage might have increased by then, They told me that their keeping fees is $18 per day only, and I deposited it  again yesterday being 11th October, 2012:

Below is the Contact Information of the FedEx, Express Customer Service Director  James Martins Park, and Email Address online:

(fedexcservice@sunumail.sn)  Contact them now and also send them the security official keeping charge to avoid increase of their fees and let me know once you receive your ATM card,
1.YOUR FULL NAME AND HOME ADDRESS
2.YOUR PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
3.A COPY OF YOUR PHOTO
4.YOUR AGE AND MARITAL STATUS

Use this info to send the $36

RECEIVERS Name========MIKE OSITA,
COUNTRY ============BENIN REPUBLIC
CITY===========COTONOU
TEXT QUESTION=====HOW LONG?
ANSWER===============TODAY
AMOUNT=============$36

Important Notice: Your ATM CARD package is rapped with pin code paper together with the instructions from the issuing bank on how you will be using the card to withdraw your fund daily and I registered it as gift so that the diplomatic Agent will not know the content of your package okay.

Best Regards

Mrs. Jennifer Brown,

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