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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: OFFICE FILE <salvomeli10@tim.it>
Reply-To: officeoffice690@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 04:53:36 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: DEIVERY OF YOUR ATM CARD,

Dear.Beneficiary,

This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of your fund
transfer through the Money Gram network or Western UInion, decided to credited
your total sum of $2.8 MILLON, valid fund into an ATM MASTER CARD and I have
registered it to the delivery company which will deliver to your home address
and i have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery fee of the ATM Card for
you,I paid it because the ATM Card worth of $2.8MILLON, which I have
registered it yesterday and delivery 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. Which that we decided to help you pay off the
money so that the ATM Card will not expire, because I trust believe that when
you receive your ATM Card definitely you must pay me back my money and even
compensate me for helping you.

Now I want you to contact DHL DELIVERY COMPANY with there email address:(
officeoffice690@gmail.com ) with your physical address you desire the delivery
to be made so that they can deliver your ATM Card to your designated address
without any delay.

Like I stated earlier, the crediting, 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
whenare you are going to contact them and the demur-rage might have increased
by then, They told me that their keeping fees is $45,only, and Ideposited it
yesterday,

Below is the Contact Information of the DHL, Express Customer Service Director
Mr Tony Uba, Email Address;( officeoffice690@gmail.com )TEL: +229-688-930-18
Contact them today and also send them the security official keeping charge to
avoid increase of their 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.

Contact info: email address:( officeoffice690@gmail.com )

Regards.
Barr.Peter Chukwu.

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