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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: info@cosanpa.pa.gov.br
Reply-To: fedexin@aliyun.com
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:47:19 -0800
Subject: UK Winner

Good Day to you,

We have been waiting for you to contact us for your long conformable existing Package that was registered with us for shipping to your residential location. We had thought that the UK National lottery promotion gave you our contact details to contact us, it might interest you to note that a letter was added to your package, however we cannot quote the full content to you via email but we understand that the package itself contain a winning bank Cashier cheque worth €10,000,000.00 Euro { €10Million Euro } As you know FedEx do not ship money in CASH but Bank Drafts/winning check are shipped. The package is registered with us for mailing by the UK National lottery promotion, We are sending you this email because your package is been registered on a Special delivery order What you have to do now, is to contact our Delivery Department for immediate dispatch of your package to your residential address. Note that as soon as our Delivery Team confirm your information's it will only take one working day 24hours for your package to arrive your designated address. For your information, the VAT & Shipping charges as well as Insurance fees have been paid by the UK National lottery promotion before your package was registered but Note that the payment that is made on the Insurance, Premium & Clearance Certificates, is to certify that the winning cheque is not for Drug Affiliated Fund (DAF) neither is it a fund to sponsor Terrorism in your country. This will help you avoid any form of query from the Monetary Authority of your country. Note, you will have to pay a total Security sum of €95 Euro to the FedEx Security Company being full payment for the Security Keeping Fee of your package as stated in our privacy terms & condition page before the winning bank Cashier cheque of €10,000,000.00 Euro can be deliver to your door step. Also be informed that the UK National lottery promotion wishes you to pay for the Security Keeping charges, but we do not accept such payment just like that considering the fact that all items & packages that is registered with us have a life time limitation and we cannot accept payment that is not known to us, so you are to send us your full detail so we can send you with our own payment procedures for the security keeping fee of your parcel containing €10,000,000.00 Euro. Kindly note that the UK National lottery promotion did not leave us with any further information we hope that you respond to us as soon as possible because if you failed to respond until the expiry date of this package, we may refer the package to the British Welfare Commission as the package do not have a return address.

Kindly contact the delivery department (FedEx Delivery Manager) with the details
given below:
FedEx Delivery Post Contact Person: Mrs.Stephanie Carter
Tel: +919742548652
Email: fedexin@aliyun.com

Kindly complete the below form and send it to the email address given above.

This is mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone numbers.

FULL NAMES:
HOME ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE NUMBER
CITY:
STATE:
COUNTRY:
OCCUPATION:
SEX (M/F):
AGE:
STATE OF ORIGIN:

Kindly complete the above form and submit it to the delivery manager on: fedexin@aliyun.com.

As soon as your details are received, our delivery team will give you the necessary payment procedure so that you can send the payment for the Security Keeping Fees. As soon as they confirm your payment of €95 only, they will not hesitate to dispatch your package as well as the attached letter to your residence. It usually takes 24hours being one working day delivery services. Get back immediately with your information so we can proceed with your delivery package to your door step.

Yours in Services
Mr. Connor Owen
FedEx Online Team Management.

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