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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 Joshua Hampson <unccfile2017@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrjoshuahampson@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 19:25:13 +0100
Subject: your ATM card

DHL International (Nigeria) Ltd.
Isolo Expressway
New Airport Rd Junction
Isolo Lagos

Dear Customer

This serves as urgent notice:

Your Waybill tracking number will be forwarded to you once we dispatch
your ATM card parcel for your monitoring purposes.

The management of DHL Courier Company wishes to inform you that your
ATM card valued US$45.5M has been submitted to our custody for onward
delivery to your destination.

We shall deliver your ATM Card once you send the delivery fees 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 to know exactly when it will arrive to
your destination address. Meanwhile the delivery fees is only $380.00, so
send the fee to the below address as quickly as possible to enable us dispatch
your ATM card parcel today and update you with the tracking numbers.

So the management of this company is hereby advised you to fine below
details and send the delivery fee of $380.00 USD via Western Union or
money
gram to speed up the delivery process today.

Below is the detail where to send the 380 dollars Via Western Union
Transfer ASAP.

Receiver's name/
Destination/ Lagos Nigeria
Address/New Airport Rd Junction Isolo Lagos
Question/ Urgent
Answer/ Needed
Amount/ $380.00

After sending the fee, Kindly send us the money transfer control
number MTCN as well as the sender’s name and address.

We are definitely expecting your urgent respond to enhance the
immediate delivery of your ATM card
pls you can contact me with this Email address (mrjoshuahampson@gmail.com)
Regards
DHL Team

Mr Joshua Hampson

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