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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 Express" <fedex.express@qq.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 06:40:54 +0800
Subject: RE: RE-SEND YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION DETAILS

RE: YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

DIRECTOR FRAUD VICTIMS/STOP CONTACTING THOSE PEOPLE THEY ARE NON OFFICIALS
RE=PAYMENT COMPENSATION OF /GBP £2,000,000
REF/PAYMENT CODE: /UN/US/FGN/EU/£2,000,000
Directors Name: MR. ROBIN B CARTER
Company Name: FEDEX EXPRESS DELIVERY COMPANY

ATTENTION: SIR/MADAM,

RE: UNITED NATIONS/BRITISH GOVERNMENT/AMERICAN GOVERNMENT/THE EUROPEANUNION 2013/2014
FRAUD VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to
receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling,
Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have also noticed that over
the past you have been transacting with some imposters and fraudsters who have been
impersonating the likes of Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi of the Central Bank Of Nigeria,
Senator David Mark the Senate President, Paul Agbai Ogwuma, Anderson, none officials of
Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, FedEx, Consignment/Brief Case
delivery, Hon. Hilary Weston, Alfred Eggleston Chairman Governor of the Bank, Central
Bank of West African States, Charles Luanga Ki-Zerbo or any Central Bank of West African
States Governor, google promotion, next of kin, online dating and some imposters
claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The Cyber Crime Division of the IMF gathered information from the Internet Crime
Complaint Centre (ICCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Centre (IFCC) of
how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these imposters. As a result of
this we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us.

We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling
£2,000,000 GBP be released to you via a custom pin based ATM MasterCard with a maximum
withdrawal limit of £5,000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere
in the world were you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM). We
have advised that this should be the only way at which you are to receive your payment
because it’s more guaranteed, since over £5 billion was lost on fake check year 2013.

Secondly, you are hereby advice to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank and
also couriers as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive
your payment immediately. After the board meeting held at our headquarters, we have
resolved in finding a solution to your problem, and as you may know, we have arranged
your payment through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe, America and Asia Pacific
Amsterdam, which is then instruction given by our Prime Minister, The Rt Hon David
Cameron MP the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury,
Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party.

We guarantee 100% receipt of your payment, because we have perfected everything in
regards to the release of your £2,000,000 Great British Pounds to be 100% risk free and
free from any hitches as it’s our duty to protect citizens of the United States of
America And also Other Countries. (This is as a result of the mandate from US Government
to make sure all debts owed to citizens of American which includes Inheritance,
Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc. are been cleared for the betterment of the current
economic status of the nation and its citizens as he has always believed “Our Time for
Change has come” because “Change can happen”).

This card centre will send you an ATM MasterCard which you will use to withdraw your
money in an ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum is (£5,000.00) Five
Thousand Great British Pounds per transaction. So, if you like to receive your fund this
way, £5,000 GBP for you to withdraw for a day and each transaction is £5,000 GBP minimum
which you have to withdraw £5,000 GBP for one working day also be informed that the
total amount in the SWIFT ATM MasterCard is £2,000,000 Million Great British Pounds
Stealing.

(1)Your Full Name:
(2)Your Address where you want the payment centre to send your ATM MasterCard:
(3)Phone and Fax Number
(4)Age:
(5)Occupation:
(6)Your Nearest International Air Port in your City of residence:
(7)Company Name:

We shall be expecting to receive your information’s from you to verify and commence
delivery of your awarded ATM MasterCard, you have stop any further communication with
anybody or office. On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me for more details and
direction, and also please do update me with any new development.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Best Regards,

Directors Name: Mr. Rob B. Carter
Company Name: FedEx Express Courier delivery Service
E-mail: fedex.express@qq.com
WORLD COURIER COMPANY
________________________________________________________________________________________
Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in
possession of your ATM MasterCard or funds, you are hereby advice only to be in contact
with (Mr. Rob B. Carter) of the ATM MasterCard centre who is the rightful person to deal
with in regards to your payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this
office via the above e-mail so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop cyber crime.

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