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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: "U.S. Department of the Treasury" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <firstflightcouriers12@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 14:08:09 -0700
Subject: DELIVERY ALERT OF YOUR PACKAGE

Storage Facility

Cedar City Regional Airport (CCR)

2277 Kitty Hawk Dr, Cedar City, Utah 84721. USA




DELIVERY ALERT: ==== PACKAGE ;Reg #: BSN99YHC10





Following the Poverty Alleviation Program(PAP) recently conducted World Wide by the United Nation (UN) and the European Union(EU), you have been legally awarded as one of the lucky beneficiaries a whopping sum of 5,000,000USD (Five Million United States dollars) contained in a Consignment box with Reg #: BSN99YHC10. This Consignment box is a metal box valued at 5,000,000USD (Five Million United States dollars) and arrived at the Cedar City Regional Airport (CCR), via First Flight Couriers Airlines.

Furthermore,this is to inform you that your package and the funds contained therein 5,000,000USD (Two Million ,United States dollars) has been completely and legally investigated by the International Monitory Funds (IMF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) SCAM ALERT UNIT. Therefore, your funds has been officially cleared for delivery to your residence, and due to security reasons has been deposited at the Airport Storage facility awaiting its delivery to your residence.Please be informed that the airport storage and security unit will be expecting you to clear up the $750 storage charge for the immediate release and delivery of your funds to your residence.This fee is not an extortion,but for the security services rendered on the safety of your funds while it awaits its delivery at the storage facility.


In order to recover your package,kindly contact Mr. David Hadley of One World Couriers Ltd to assist you with the recovery of your Package and its immediate delivery to your residence. You can contact him via his email at: (firstflightcouriers12@gmail.com) reconfirming the following delivery details (1). Full Name....(2). Residential Address....(3). Country....(4). Occupation....(5). Cellphone....Note that,failure to treat this email with all sense of urgency, we will be compelled to list your Package as an unclaimed funds and maybe forfeited and will be moved to the United States Treasury Department for holding without further delay.


Cargo and Storage Facility




Robin Adams



This Email has been verified by the US Homeland Security & the United State Treasury Department to officially affirm its Legitimacy.This was sent sent from a secured IP address to avoid being compromised or hacked by scammers.Every content of this email is classified and should be kept confidential until the courier successfully arrives your residence with your funds.

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