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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. HASSAN MOHAMMAD" <officeweb530@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: fedex.company@yahoo.cn
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:16:22 +0800 (CST)
Subject: FROM ZENITH BANK INTERNATIONAL YOUR $3.5M USD


MR. HASSAN
MOHAMMAD


Attn: Payment
Notification,


This is to bring to your notice that, I
have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery of your USD$3.5M. I paid it
because the CONSIGNMENT BOX of $3.5m usd, has less 21 days here and when it
expires, the money will go into Government purse. With that I decided to help
you pay the money so that, your Consignment box will not expire, because I know
when you get your $3.5m definitely you must pay me back my money and even
compensate me for helping you.

Now i want you to contact FEDEX
Delivery Company with your Full Contact information so that they can deliver
your $3.5m usd 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 demurrage might have increase.
PACKAGE REGISTERED CODE NO ZXX774 .

They told me that their keeping fees is
20 usd per day and i deposited it on (Monday) last week.

Below is their Contact Information’s,
Contact Person: Leo
Jerry
FEDEX DELIVERY COMPANY
Email: (company.fedex@ymail.com)
Tel: +234 803
076 3315

Contact Today to avoid
increase of their keeping fees and let
me know once you receive your Fund.

Note this.
The FEDEX EXPRESS COURIER Services don't know the contents of the Box. 
They did not know the contents was money. Don't let them know that box contents
money ok.

Yours
MR. HASSAN
MOHAMMAD





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