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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: DHL<info@dhli.org>
Reply-To: dhllog@aol.com
Date: 13 Dec 2019 05:37:13 +0100
Subject: Greetings..

Greetings,

I’m Mr. White Smith, the new appointed Delivery person of Regular
delivery DHL Office branched here in EUROPE (ITALY). I assumed in
this office on 10th, June 2019. And On my going through the files
of the previous records of this office, I discovered that there
are six parcels containing ATM cards each one attached with an
email address of the owner on it. The former appointee of this
office (Ahmed Musa Jr.) failed to carry out the delivery as it
was instructed and programmed.

Probably, one of his reasons for not carrying out the delivery
was that you have not provided your postal address to him for the
completion of the delivery as he remarked.

According to the content recorded in each file, the ATM card was
deposited by one Senior Evangelist Mathew Peterson who died one
year back as a charity foundation parcel to each of the six of
you. On the statement he wrote on the list, he stated that each
of the aforementioned ATM cards contains the sum of US$1,000,000
One Million Dollars and he found your email contacts as reputable
and capable persons that can use the charity awarded ATM cards to
change the lives of people.

Meanwhile, I've made the arrangement of delivery the six parcels
through Regular delivery DHL Office to the six of you to your
respective mailing addresses.

Am also sending the same message of the same content to six of
you that own the six abandoned ATM cards each at the same time.
If found in spam folder, it could be due to your poor Internet
Service Provider ISP. So move it to your inbox before your reply.

I went to our head office at Cotonou Benin and reported the issue
of the discovered six ATM cards in my office and they verified it
and gave me the veto order to carry out the delivery immediately
you reconfirm your mailing address to this office in order for us
to deliver the ATM card directly to you after Postal Stamp of the
parcel. Note, below information is officially needed for delivery
of the ATM card ASAP.

YOUR FULL NAME______________
HOME ADDRESS___________
YOUR OCCUPATION______________
EMAIL ADDRESS_______
PHONE NUMBER_____________
COPY OF YOUR ID___________

We shall deliver your ATM card once you update us with the above
info and you shall be given a tracking number, that is, the Track
and Trace number of your parcel once it is posted to your
destination address, so as to enable you track your parcel online
to know exactly when it will arrive to your destination address
through dhl delivery company.

I am looking forward to receiving your immediate response.

Regards,
DHL Office branch ITALY
Mr. White Smith.

Email: dhllog@aol.com

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