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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: "Timi Williams," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rtm.williams@qq.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:39:49 +0100
Subject: Did you Authorized this change?

Speed Ways Courier Service.
#13-15 Airport Road, Lagos Nigeria.
Phone: Direct line: +234 808 543 0886.
Email: info@speedway-courier.uk.pn
Website: www.speedway-courier.uk.pn


Dear Sir,



we received a parcel from the Personal assistant to Dr. Johnson C. Kuke a senior staff with the federal ministry of finance in Nigeria containing a United bank for Africa (UBA) Visa ATM debit card with face value of $6.5 Million for immediately delivery to One Mr. George Robinson of 165 ESSEX AVE, #409 METUCHEN, NJ 08840 USA.



I checked the parcel containing the ATM card for verification while doing final departure scanning on the parcel but was surprised to see your name on the card and on the original form filled by the personal assistant to Mr. Johnson C. Kuke who brought the card to our office before Mr. Kuke himself called us and insist that we change the receivers address to the one belonging to Mr. George Robinson from USA.


Mr. Kuke did not provide enough convincing evidence why he want us to changed the original receivers address he only told me that you are the one that asked him to redirect the delivery to Mr. Robinson with the address mentioned above,to avoid any mistake or error i decided to send this email to you to be sure that indeed you ordered the parcel to be delivered to Mr. George Robinson, respond immediately so that i will stop action towards dispatching the card to Mr. Robinson if you did not authorize the change of receivers/consignee address as stated by Dr.Johnson C. Kuka.



Regards,
Timi Williams,
Operations Manager.
Speed Ways Courier Service.
Direct line: +234 808 543 0886.

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