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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 David J Brown <jmrdavid24@gmail.com>
Reply-To: davidjimbrown111@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:54:06 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: DELIVERY OF YOUR CONSIGNMENT

Hello, Beneficiary

Our agency has in possession a parcel shipped from a government agency of the United Kingdom. During transport the package was damaged and the label became almost illegible. What we have deciphered appears to be your name.

In events such as this we have no choice but to turn these packages over to the closest match on the shipping address. This is required by law. And this is why we are contacting you.

These packages have been scanned and x-rayed in hopes to find any information to surrender them to the rightful owner.

We discovered, while x-raying these packages, that they contain a large amount of United States currency. We assume this was a transaction or transfer to you and that you are probably still expecting the delivery. And the total assumed raw cash is estimated around Eight million and above ( just an assumed estimated amount).

Again, we are required by law to turn this package over to the rightful owner and since your name appears on the shipping label, that owner is probably you.

We would like to forward this parcel to you but we need to verify your full name, proper shipping address and a telephone number so we may begin processing this claim.

There is a limited time required by law to claim lost/damaged/illegible packages. Once this time expires we must turn the package over to the United States Government who disperses the contents to charities. Any unclaimed money is sent to the US Treasury Office where it is destroyed.

If you feel that you should claim this money please reply with the information above and we can release it to you, ones the doumented paper works is being sign and approved.


Thank you for your help in this matter.
Mr. David Jim Brown
Administration Officer
United Nations Inspection

Atlanta, Georgia USA.

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