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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: "Leo Jaka" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <royalbankofbenin@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:05:07 +0100
Subject: Re: Re: Your Payment Card.

Hello My Good Friend,

How are you doing, I was shock that you stop communicating me on the claim of your $1,200,000.00 USD IMF EMAIL BALLOUT PROGRAMME 2016 but after all delay by you, your funds have been last week credited into an ATM Debt Card for easy access by you and I have drop it with a Courier company called INT'L COURIER DELIVERY SERVICE for the delivery to you. Security Keeping fee charges have been paid by me, but the only fee remaining is the delivery fee of $185.00 USD which you will be required to pay before the delivery will be made to you. I did this because I was unable to make the funds transfer to your bank account in your country and I am going out of Benin to Russia for a period of 4 months for an investment.

However, you must send your address to them to avoid wrong delivery of your ATM Debt Card to different address and when contacting the courier company, I advise you to quote the parcel and shipment code which is below.

Contact Dr. Dohami Stanislas Romaric Thomas Pedro
Director International Courier Delivery Services
C/65, Sikecodj, Cotonou, Republic of Benin
Tel: Tel: +229 68796302 Telfax: +229 30 22 025
E-mail: tpdservice@outlook.com

Shipment Code: ICDS/00977-667642
Parcel Number: 6971001-004

Yours Belove,
Mr. Leo Jaka

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