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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.Louis DeJoy" <iinterpolpoliceforceunity49@gmail.com>
Reply-To: tonyjohnos12@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 23:34:31 -0800
Subject: Mr.Louis DeJoy

Hello.

I am Mr. Louis DeJoy Director general of the United States Postal
Service (USPS) . We have been waiting for you to contact us for your
parcel that has been registered with us By IMF for shipment to your
residential address. We thought that the sender gave you our contact
details. It may interest you to know that a letter is also added to your
parcel.

However, we cannot quote the content to you via email for privacy
reasons. We understand that the content of your parcel itself is an
ATM MASTER CARD and after our scanning of the ATM MASTER CARD it
contains $3,500,000.00, we scan this your ATM CARD due to your
delaying in contacting us, So kindly get in touch with us asap with
your requested information which was used to registered it by the IMF
to our office and also for we to be sure that we are in contact with
the rightful owner of this ATM CARD. Kindly get in touch with us asap
with your full details for security reasons although we have your
information.

1]Name--------------
2]Address-----------
3]Tell--------------

Here is your ATM MASTER CARD information. You can't use your ATM card
for now until we deliver it to your home address for a security
reason.

1]ATM CARD NUMBER: 4342-5801-5196-5506
2]EXPIRE DATE: 10/24
3]CCV: 713


Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Louis DeJoy
Director General of United States Postal Service
Address 5675 CAROLINA BEACH RD WILMINGTON, NC 28412-3629.

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