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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: "David P. Abney" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <upsuniteddelivery02@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 07:41:44 -0700
Subject: $13,500.000.00 USD

WELCOME TO UNITED PARCEL SERVICE UPS
Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Founded: August 28, 1907, Seattle, Washington, United States
CEO: David P.Abney
Email: (upsuniteddelivery02@gmail.com )
Subsidiaries: The UPS Store, Mail Boxes, UPS Airlines,
Shipping and Mailing Service
Phone number(412) 387-7238.
ADDRESS:9838 Old Bay meadows Rd Jacksonville FL.USA ·
Open until 6:30 PM
more The UPS Store
 
This message is coming to you from the UPS Office in the address (9838
Old Bay meadows Rd Jacksonville ) and we hereby today dated 16/5/2019
to inform you
 
that there is an certified ATM CARD from bank of America registered to
our officer here this morning from one Mrs Debra Kenneth from Africa
and according to
 
her the West African Compensation Union in conjunction with United
Nation Union is compensating all the scam victims and your email
address was found in the
 
scam victim's list and due to too much fraud in Africa they couldn't
offer the money to you directly from Africa so they now decided to pay
you by certified
 
ATM CARD and the check valued sum of $13,500.000.00 USD will easily
and safely deliver it to you by UPS to avoid any fraudulent issues
again so all you needs
 
to do now is to contact us with your delivery information such as.
 
Your Full Name::::::::::::::::::::
Your Address::::::::::::::::::::::
Your PO Box Number::::::::::::::::
Your Direct Telephone number::::::
 
Meanwhile ups also want to use this opportunity to let you know that
according to our service terms and procedure; being that this is
government registered
 
Check, UPS are only charging you sum of $200 which is for shipment/
delivery fee and your ATM CARD will be mail to you successful the
sooner we confirmed our
 
shipping charge so you are hereby advise to send the shipping charge
along with your mailing address to our cashier through google play
gift card.
 
go to any walmart store or Amazon store and buy any of this cards $200
Amazon CARD OR $200 GOOGLE PLAY GIFT CARD. send the picture of the
card with the number
 
to my email ass soon you purchase them, call or text me with the
Amazon card picture on my Phone number(412) 387-7238.
Thanks for being in serve with us and we promise to serve you better
as good citizen
 
David P. Abney
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Phone number (412) 387-7238

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