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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: "Dr Johnson Uba" <mrjohnsonuba@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dhlc.003@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 22:37:21 +0800
Subject: CONTACT DHL COMPANY FOR DELIVERY

Attention,

This is to inform you that your long awaiting fund worth $2,500,000.00 has
been approved to be delivered to you in Good faith.

We are very sorry for our late response, we have been working very hard to
come up with proper modalities of making the delivery to you through DHL
and we have come to a final conclusion from our last meeting that you are
going to receive your FUND through ATM CARD.

Note: the only money you will send to them is $85 been their delivery fee
base on our agreement with them, please don't be deceived by anybody to
pay more than $85, and let me know once you receive your ATM Card, I will
advise you to call Mr David Ikolo and ask him where to send the money and
when you will receive your ATM Card.

Please don't let them know the content of the package to avoid any problem
or miss packaging ok.

Reconfirm your current information to DHL Courier Company for immediate
procedure. Such as below

YOUR NAME_______________
YOUR HOME ADDRESS_______
YOUR ID COPY____________
YOUR COUNTY___________
YOUR AGE/SEX_____________
DIRECT PHONE NUMBER____
YOUR OCCUPATION______

DHL Contact person.

Mrs.David Ikolo
Email:dhlc.003@gmail.com
Phone:+229-688-753-37

Thanks and God Bless You.

Regard,
Dr Johnson Uba

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