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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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Fraud email example:

From: " Rev. Willi Christopher" <mongrm96@gmail.com>
Reply-To: usa.customs.service@usa.com
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 15:38:06 +0100
Subject: Consignment Fund SEAL Immunity

ATTN.

Let me remind you that after securing your Consignment Fund SEAL Immunity
Document of your package then i decided to contact my good friend who is
custom officer in John F. Kennedy Int Airport new York to help me out. As
matter of fact, i told the custom officer the whole truth about your
consignment box and when she ask me about the backup documents that covers
the funds, i told her that all necessary documents is in tact with the
Cargo box which is the truth then i said to her that the only thing and
only help i needed from her is to help me clear the package from custom
office new York and make sure the receiver of the shipment receive the
package the shipment. However she has agreed with me but she demanded for
10% of the total funds once she helped and get the consignment box
delivered to your door step.

Let me remind you again that our Church name used to ship the package
through official Courier who will met with the custom officer at the
airport today upon arrival. It is Church Charity Donation CARGO
Registration, that is what will be declared before the customs for security
reasons of your funds while the true actual contents were your total Funds.
Remembered i what told the custom officer is that the total funds was
Church Charity Donation Funds. So i am 100% confident that your funds will
be delivered with the help of this custom officer who is going to take care
of the clearance once the agent arrives new York today because SHE is going
to accompany the agent from the airport. She is going to handle the CARGO
with the agent to your address and get her own 10% of the total funds after
delivering. So the Consignment is not going to be freely cleared at the
airport upon arrival because she will handle the Clearance by herself and
accompany the agent to bring the package to your address you will provided
but bear it mind that she will be takiing 10% share from the total funds
that is our agreement. and it is better i explain everything clear to you
before the deal is done,so that no body will betray each other.

The total cost of this solid delivery arrangement is $2,390. and with the
help of my Pastor and the Church i will surely come up with the sum of
$2000. and the money will be sending to the custom officer once the package
arrives new York today. So definitely you are going to send the remaining
$390. to make this delivering successful and you must send the fees as soon
as possible, to enable the appointed official Courier agent and custom
officer hand the shipment over to you at your house address. Now, I will
prefer that you contact the custom officer directly to be sure who you are
dealing with.So go ahead and send your direct phone number and current
address to the custom officer.
The name custom officer is
Mis. Elena Chapman
EMAIL usa.customs.service@usa.com

I await your positively response.

Regards
Rev. Willi Christopher

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