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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: "Federal Express Courier Service" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infoinfo552@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:56:53 -0800
Subject: Dear Customer, Reply Urgent

Federal Express Courier Service
Nigeria Head Office
70 International Airport Road
Mafoluku, Lagos.
Order: SH-5468-482485468
Customers Service Hours--Monday to Saturday: Office Hours Monday to Sunday:
Dear Customer,
This is Federal Express Courier Delivery Company of Nigeria, the management of this
company, wishes to inform you that, we received a parcel containing an ATM
Master Card valued $5.5million USD with some vital documents attached on it,
for safety delivery to your residential address in your country.
Your ATM Master Card Delivery was approved by Central Bank of Nigeria
and President Muhammadu Buhari, and I was informed by Mr.Godwin,
Governor Central Bank of Nigeria that DHL delivery Agent have
attempted to deliver your ATM Card late last year without any success
because your address in Central Bank of Nigeria payment file was not
complete.
This parcel was brought to us this morning by the ATM Card payment office here in
Nigeria,  please reconfirm the below information, to avoid delivery of your ATM Master Card to wrong hand.
Full names............
Parcel owner address......
Country/State........
Occupation...........
Passport/Driving License
Tel...........
We will register your package and send you the tracking numbers before we
proceed for safety delivery of your package as soon as you reconfirm the
required information for safety delivery.
Federal Express is one of the world's great success stories, the start-up that
revolutionized the delivery of packages and information. In the past 33
years, we've grown up and grown into a diverse family of companies as Federal Express
that's bigger, stronger, better than ever.
Yours affectionately.
Mr. Onyx perry.
Dispatch Manager Federal Express
for the Ikeja branch manager
Federal Express Service Lagos -Nigeria

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