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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: "Allen and Violet Large" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dhloffice.nl@post.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 16:09:10 +0100
Subject: Contact The Courier Company DHL

I am Allen Large. My wife and I are presently into humanitarian and social welfare support, we are therefore donating part of our winnings to 6 lucky people from accross the world as part of our Project Generous Initiative (PGI) and you have been chosen to receive 1,000,000.00 United States Dollars donation for this purpose to positively affect the lives of the underprivileged and needy around you. We won 11.2M USD in a lottery 6-49 in July, 2010. You can verify our story by visiting the web page below.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/n-s-couple-gives-away-11m-in-lottery-winnings-1.570916

You are hereby instructed to contact the courier company DHL Courier Services now for the delivery of your cheque with this information bellow;

DHL Courier Services
Contact Person: Michael Van Vries
Contact address: Ridderhaven 5,
2984 BT Ridderkerk The Netherlands
Delivery E-Mail Contact : dhloffice.nl@post.com

All fees and charges have been paid to prove the money is not drug/gang related neither is it meant to sponsor terrorism. 980 dollars for the safekeeping of the cheque is to be paid and we were advised not to pay although we insisted, however, because the company do not know when you will contact them, they stated it is best option not to. This will prevent demurrage hence increasing the fee (should we have paid). You are to reconfirm the below information to them to avoid any mistake on the Delivery. Parcel code: 3B4DHLCA6131

Postal address:
Full Names:
Direct telephone number:

Good luck,
Allen and Violet Large

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