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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 Green" <ubabankforafrica377@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dhl.delivery1988@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 03:58:27 +0100
Subject: CONTACT DHL DELIVERY COMPANY FOR YOUR ATM CARD OF $11MILLION

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CONTACT DHL DELIVERY COMPANY FOR YOUR ATM CARD OF $11MILLION

This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of your
fund transfer through the Money Gram network, we have credited your total
of $11MILLON, valid fund into an ATM MASTER CARD and I have paid the
re-activation fee and the delivery of the ATM Card To you,I paid it because
the ATM Card worth of $11MILLON, which I have registered it delivery
yesterday has less than 21 days to expire in the custody of the DHL Company
and when it expires, the money will go into Federal Government treasury
account. With that we decided to help you pay off the money so that the ATM
Card will not expire, because I trust that when you receive your ATM Card
definitely you must pay me back my money and even compensate me for helping
you.

Now I want you to contact DHL, Express Company at:
dhl.delivery1988@hotmail.com with your physical address you desire the
delivery to be made so that they can deliver your ATM Card to your
designated address without any delay.

Like I stated earlier, the crediting re-activation, delivery and the
company registration charges has been paid by me, but we did not pay their
official keeping fees since they refused, they refused and the reason is
that they do not know when you are going to contact them and the demur-rage
might have increased by then, They told me that their keeping fees is $25
per day only, and I deposited it Friday 1st of October 2021

Below is the Contact Information of the
DHL, Express Customer Service
Director Mr. David Green
Email Address; dhl.delivery1988@hotmail.com
Phone number(+180-6305-0114

Contact them today and also send them the security official keeping charge
to avoid increase of their fees and let me know once you receive your ATM
card, Important Notice, your ATM CARD package was registered as a gift so
that the diplomatic Agent will not know the content of your package okay.

Regards.
MRS. INGA BRITT

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