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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 Courier Delivery Company <fedexdel_wesregion241@live.com>
Reply-To: <fedexdel_westregionghana001@secretarias.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:33:59 +0000
Subject: CONTACT FEDEX EXPRESS COURIER COMPANY FOR YOUR PACKAGE.



>From the desk of the manager,
FEDEX Courier Company,
Accra, Ghana

Attention,

We want to inform you that your consignment which contains the sum of $10.5m (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) that was supposed to be delivered to you which did not get to you due to unavailability of providing the certificate guiding the fund in the consignment which has been submitted to the custom officers, and has now been released and now in our custody in FEDEX Courier Company here in Ghana.

So all you need to do is to resend to our office the below
details to enable our diplomatic agent proceed for delivery immediately to any address of your choice along with all the legal documents guiding the consignment.

1.Your full name
2.Your residential address
3.The address where you want the consignment to be delivered
4.Your telephone number

Note that without the above information’s we will not leave for delivery to your destination and note that if this consignment remains with us and does not leave as soon as possible to your destination, it will be forwarded to the federal government treasury.

And from now on stop any other communication with any office (s) or person (s) to avoid hitch in the delivery of your consignment.

So contact the office in charge through this email {fedexdel_westregionghana001@secretarias.com}
The Manager,
Dr. Fredrick Adams
Tel: +233577791242

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