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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: "United Courier Services" <unitedcourierservices2001@indiatimes.com>
Reply-To: ucourierss@live.com
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:49:35 -0600 (CST)
Subject: United Courier Services




Good Day

I am sorry to encroach into your privacy through this manner, we have a
International Certified Bank Draft Cheque of $750,000.00 United
States Dollars in our custody that belongs to you. This cheque was brought
to our company(UNITED COURIER SERVICES) by a great diplomat Name
Mr.McDonald Hook,who gave us a packaged cheque and your e-mail address to
contact you on the delivery.

He has paid for the delivery Charge, Insurance Premium and Clearance
Certificate Fee. The only money you are to pay to us is our Security
Keeping Fee of the Courier Services which is ($100.00USD).immediately you
contact us,we will send you our payment information so that you can send
down the $100.00usd,So contact us fast because of the expiring date and so
we can delivery your package to your residential Address in your country.

You are advice to send us the following:

Name:
Address:
Contact phone Number:
Occupation:

We await your response soonest.

UNITED COURIER SERVICES
Email: ucourierss@live.com

I wait anxiously for a swift response.

Mr. Samuel Brown
Dispatch Director.
Tel: +234-805-6259-918



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