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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 Express Services" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fastfedex44@yahoo.ca>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 07:35:26 +0200
Subject: YOUR OVERDUE LOTTREY PRZE PLEASE HURRY!!!

Plot 8, Ahmed Way,
Victoria Island, Lagos Nigeria.
fastfedex@yahoo.ca
TEL...+234-7083907096

Customers Service Hours--Monday To Saturday:
Office Hours Monday to Saturday:

You’re Honesty Payment,

FedEx provides access to a growing global market place through a network of supply chain, transportation, business and related information services.

The FedEx courier Service Company is hereby passing an essential message to all our valuable customers to be very careful while presenting Receivers/Residential Address to avoid wrong delivery.

Your overdue lottery prize of $1.5 million US Dollars is boxed and put to v.i.p FedEx to deliver to you as cash

a payment! since you’re disappointed in the past, So contact us with your Full Name, delivery address and telephone number, and bellow is who to contact.

Name : Mr. William smith
Tell : +234-7083907096

You should duly contact FedEx for tracking number and v.i.p shipment recipient's (SKF), your reference code is..AXD-101-87529K.

Note that you will pay for the Security Keeping Fee of $250 and it is compulsory.

We once again appreciate your patronage, without hesitation you are to pay the Security Keeping Fee of $250 your sender via western union money transfer so that your Package can be delivered to your residential
Address before it attracts demurrage

Your Package is not just an ordinary Package but with a huge amount and I think you understand what I mean by accumulating a demurrage

We assure you that your Package will arrive your country within 3 days as soon as this company receive your full information required and the Security Keeping Fee of $250, the tracking number of your Package will be sent to you via e-mail after your payment have being made, So that you can track it yourself to see whether we are competent in the discharge of our duties.

FedEx courier Service Company do hereby inform all their customers to be at alert especially with all sorts of scam mail that might be coming to you Globally.

Be careful with their e-mail so that your Package will not be in danger with their evil planes, Note reply to fastfedex@yahoo.ca


PAYMENT INFORMATION OFFICE

SENDERS NAME:
SENDERS COUNTRY:
RECEIVERS NAME: Mrs. Franca Osuagwu
RECEIVERS COUNTRY: Lagos Nigeria.
TEXT QUESTION: Good
TEXT ANSWER: Day
AMOUNT TO BE PAID: $250

ALSO SEND 10 DIGITS MTCN NUMBER FROM WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER.

FedEx is one of the world's great success stories, the start-up that revolutionized the delivery of packages and information. In the past 30 years, we've grown up and grown into a diverse family of companies' -a
FedEx that's bigger, stronger, better than ever.

Thanks for your Co-operation.
Yours Affectionately.
>From The FedEx Term.
www.fedex.com

FedEx Express Services

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