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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: Deluxe Delivery Company <rosario658290@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dds.info@mail2usa.com
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:32:58 +0100
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION!



Customers Service Hours--Monday to Saturday: Office Hours Monday to Sunday:

Attention:

This is Deluxe Delivery Company United State, the management of this
company, wishes to inform you that we received a parcel containing an ATM
Master Card valued $7.5 million USD with some vital documents attached on
it for smooth/safe delivery to your residential address without a hitch.

This parcel was brought to us late on Friday 11th of March from the
Department of the Treasury, and It is important to note that we have
discussed with the authorities to determine that your ATM card package will
be delivered to your address and through us. Please reconfirm the below
information, to enable us to proceed and to avoid delivery of your ATM
Master Card to the wrong hand.

Full names............

Parcel owner address......

State........

Occupation...........

Passport/Driving License

Tel...........

We will register your package here in our company and send you the tracking
numbers before we proceed for safety delivery of your package as soon as
you reconfirm the required information for safety delivery.

Deluxe Delivery Systems Inc is one of the world's great success stories,
the start-up that revolutionized the delivery of packages and information.
In the past 33 years, we've grown up and grown into a diverse family of
companies as Deluxe Delivery Systems that's bigger, stronger, better than
ever.

waiting to read your e-mail ( dds.info@mail2usa.com )

Yours affectionately,

Yoindra Ramnarayan
Managing Director Deluxe Delivery Company for the New York branch.

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