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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: "U.S. Postal Service" <ploxyohabbo@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: drjcwilliams@wss-id.org
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:08:18 +0100 (BST)
Subject: UNITED STATES POSTAL INSPECTION SERVICE



Washington, DC, Headquarters 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW
UNITED STATES POSTAL INSPECTION SERVICE
 
Attention.Beneficiary,
 
 
This
is to notify you that we have intercepted your parcel from  COURIER
SERVICE,we have stopped the delivery process for some security reasons
stated below:
 
1. Our scanning system has detected that your parcel contains a conformable ATM CARD to the tune of $4.7m USD..
 
2.
Such ATM CARD coming from African /Europe/Asia is been verified by the
POSTAL INSPECTION SERVICE which we have directed our inspection team to
proceed with the verification to ascertain the authenticity of the ATM
CARD and now after all the verification on the Parcel/ATM CARD, having
contacted the issuing institution who made it known to our office that
the ATM CARD is a Genuine one and Not ILLEGALLY ACQUIRED.
 
We
have also forwarded the Serial Number of the ATM CARD to the U.S,
Treasury Department and they confirmed that the CARD is Authentic and
ready to be cashed at any ATM MACHINES.
 
Also for the Delivery of
the Parcel to continue, you are in obligation to obtain from Africa, a
Duly Sworn Affidavit from Benin High Court which will back up the Origin
of Fund. This is in line with the Anti-Terrorist Campaign which the USA
Government has embarked on recently to protect our Territory from
future attacks. You should therefore contact the sender of the CARD to
get the Sworn Affidavit for you while we wait to receive from you the
Affidavit File Number to enable us forward your ATM CARD to your
address.
 
Below is the contact information of the sender as in contains in the parcel.

Sender: Dr J.C. Williams
Email( drjcwilliams@wss-id.org

Phone: + 229 96680029 



 Once
we receive the Sworn Affidavit from you or from the sender,We shall then
forward the CARD to you and you will be sure of a genuine CARD that is
coming to you.We are doing this for your interest considering the rate
which fraudulent and stolen checks/CARD are been sent to our innocent
citizen that most times put them in problem. Always send your
correspondence to our secure email: (uspostalservice@post.com)

 

Your urgent action on this notice will be appreciated.
 

 


Our  mission is to support and protect the U.S. Postal Service and its
employees, infrastructure, and customers; enforce the laws that defend
the nation’s mail system from illegal or dangerous use; and ensure
public trust in the mail.  



 


Sincerely,Yours In
Service



 Guy Cottrell chief Postal
Inspector General

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