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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: "Mrs.Kerry John." <vicki_winstead@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: "Mrs.Kerry John." <dhlcouriercompany861@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 11:36:21 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Dear.Beneficiary,


 Dear.Beneficiary,
This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of your fund transfer through the Money Gram network, we have credited your total sum of $2.5millon valid fund into an ATM MASTER CARD and I have paid the re-activation and the delivery fees of the ATM Card for you, I paid it because the ATM Card worth of $2,500,000.00 which I have registered yesterday has less than 21 days to expire in the custody of the DHL Company and when it expires, the money will go into Federal Government treasury account.
For that reason we have decided to help you pay off the money so that the ATM Card will not expire, because I trust that when you receive your ATM Card definitely you must pay me back my money and as well compensate me for helping you if you wish.
Now I want you to contact DHL Express at:( dhlcouriercompany861@yahoo.co.uk) with your physical address where you desire the package delivered so that they can deliver your ATM Card to your designated address without any delay.
Therefore, you are to re-confirm your full delivery information to them as follows:
Full Name: ..........................Home address:..................Country:..............................Marital status:.....................Sex:........................................Occupation/profession:..............Mobile number:..................Age: ......................................
Like I stated earlier, the credit re-activation, delivery and the company registration charges has been paid by me, but we did not pay their official keeping fees since they refused and the reason is that they do not know when you are going to contact them and the demur-rage might have increased by then, They told me that their keeping fees is $75 only per day, and I deposited it yesterday being 6th of November 2014
Below is the Contact Information of the DHL Express Customer Service Director Mr. Mandela Freeman, Email Address:( dhlcouriercompany861@yahoo.co.uk) Tel: +229- 68569143.
Contact them today and also send them the security official keeping charge to avoid increase of the fees and let me know once you receive your ATM card, Important Notice, your ATM CARD package was registered as a gift so that the diplomatic Agent will not know the content of your package okay.
Regards.Mrs.Kerry John.

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