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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: "James Williams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <accessdeliverycompany@starmail.co.za>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:19:06 -0700
Subject: Contact the delivery company for your ATM card immediately

Greetings,

I waited for you to get in contact with me for your visa atm card Loaded
with the sum of $650,000,hence I deposited it with ACCESS DELIVERY
COMPANY GHANA LTD.

Note that i have already paid for the delivery charges and insurance
certificate but they did not allow me to pay for the security keeping fee
because they don't know when you will be contacting them, the security
keeping fee is $135.All that you need to do, is just contact them
immediately and send the security keeping fee of $135,to them so that they
will release your package to you without any delay.

Contact the Dispatch Director: Dr.Bright Kofi using this Email
Address:accessdeliverycompany@starmail.co.za and telephone:+233-548-110-117 with the following information below:

Full name:

Address

Telephone:

As a matter of facts, make sure as the rightful beneficiary of the visa atm card
package of $650,000.00,you must contact them by indicating the code
(2661428) to enable them deliver the visa atm card package as they have it
in their record.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr.James Williams,

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