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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: "Mr. Daniel J.cole" <marianorago@tin.it>
Reply-To: fedexcourierexpress888@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:48:49 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FEDEX COURIER SERVICE

Dear Valued Customer,


In respect to your email, I have been awaiting for you to contact me
for the delivery of your cheque of $150,000,00.You can as well come
down to this branch to pick up your package or even send someone to
pick it up on your behalf.

Mr.Femi Adeniyi who came to our company to place your cheque on out
going delivery, he already paid for the insurance fee and the delivery
charges. But he did not pay for the security keeping fee due to the
fact that we did not know when you will be contacting us via mail or
phone to inform us that we have your cheque. We informed him to
contact you on time so you will not have to pay more than $55 USD on
demurrage and we do not operate COD{Cost On Delivery} on a charge like
this.

All you need to do right now to get your cheque delivered to your door
step is to go ahead and pay the security keeping fee of the courier
company so far.The fee is $55.00 USD only, you are to come up with
this fee as to process the delivery of your package for immediate
dispatch.

Payment should be made via western union money transfer only for
security purpose, payment details are listed below.

Name: LUIS HENRY
Address: Porto-Novo Benin Republic.
Text Question to be used: Relationship?
Text Answer: Friend

You have to send down the MTCN (Money Transfer Control Number) and
your complete postal address. Reconfirm your full name, address,
country and most important your phone number.

Get back to me with your payment details, I will have to send Mr.Anup
Mistrar an email that you have contacted me regarding the cheque for
you. Note that your tracking number would be provided to you as soon
as the payment has been made and confirmed by us.

Have a wonderful time.

Regards
Mr. Daniel J.cole
Dispatch Director.
( fedexcourierexpress888@gmail.com )

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