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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. Joe Gadisu" <mrjoegadisu@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: universalexpdeliver@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:54:23 -0700
Subject: RE: Contact them now for urgent delivery of your package...


Attention: Dear Friend,

I have waited enough to send your Cheque bank draft $2.8m united state US
dollars for your compensation but I did not hear from you since then and
the time the bank draft will be expired is getting near, I finally arranged
with the bank manger of Barclay's Bank of Ghana Ltd Mr. James Robert and he
has coveted the bank draft into cash payment and package it in a diplomatic
box the arrangement has been finalized with UNIVERSAL EXPRESS DELIVERY
COURIER COMPANY THE RELIABLE DELIVERY SYSTEM to send the package through
diplomatic courier service I have contacted them and they told me that you
should forward all this information below to them.

Please carefully Reconfirm your full house address, your private Mobile
phone number and send it to them to avoid wrong delivery of your
consignment to your doorstep.

FULL NAME.......................
OCCUPATION.............................
YOU’RE HOUSE ADDRESS...............
AGE..................................
TELEPHONE NUMBER......................
FAX NUMBER...............................
OFFICE ADDRESS...................................
NEAREST AIR PORT...................................
PROOF OF IDENTIFICATION: (PASSPORT OR DRIVES'
LICENSE ...................................

Also remember that they did not know the content of the box I registered it
as an Africa cloths. They don't know that it contents money. This is to
avoid them delaying with the delivery of the box to you .I don't want you
to let them know that the content of the box is money. JUST FEEL FREE AND
CONTACT THEM WITH THIS EMAIL: (universalexpressdeliver@hotmail.com)

Note: That you have to pay them for their Delivering Fee which is 98Euro
only.

BATCH NO AX277
SHIPMENT CODE 33XZS
THE AIRWAY BILL NUMBER.GX843KR
CONSIGNMENT REGISTERED CODE NO XGT476.
SECURITY CODES NO SCT/2071DHX0
CONTACT PERSON / MR. UGO EGODINMA.
ADDRESS NO4/7 WHITE HOUSE BUILDING 6TH FLOOR ACCRA GHANA.
TELEPHONE NUMBER. +233-542-987-030

BEST REGARD'S.

MR. JOE GADISU,

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