419 scam: "FedEx Nigeria Head"<sales@NATTFOODS.COM> FedEx Nigeria Head office

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- lexwhitebrown@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "FedEx Nigeria Head" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lexwhitebrown@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:10:59 -0300
Subject: FedEx Nigeria Head office

FedEx Nigeria Head
Office
70 International Airport Road Mafoluku,
Lagos.
Customers Service Hours--Monday to Saturday:
Office Hours Monday Sunday.

This is FedEx courier Delivery Company of
Nigeria, the management of this company, wishes to inform
you that, we received a parcel containing an ATM Master Card
valued $10.5million USD with some vital documents attached
on it, for safety delivery to your residential address in
your country.

This parcel was brought to us this morning by
the ATM Card payment office Nigeria, please reconfirm
the below information, to avoid delivery your ATM Master
Card to wrong hand.

Full names......
Parcel owner address....
Tel....

We will register your package and send you the
tracking numbers before we proceed for safety delivery of
your package as soon as you reconfirm the required
informations for safety delivery.

FedEx is one of the world's great success
stories, the start-up that revolutionized the delivery of
packages and information.

In the past 30 years, we've grown up and grown
into a diverse family of companies as FedEx that's bigger,
stronger, better than ever.

Waiting to read your e-mail via (lexwhitebrown@gmail.com)
Yours affectionately.

Mr. lex white brown
Dispatch Manager
FedEx Courier for the Ikeja branch manager
FedEx express services Lagos -Nigeria

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