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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: jimpeters13@freenet.de
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:27:29 +0100
Subject: CONTACT DELIVERY COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC


JIM PETERS COUNSELORS AT LAW)
06 BP 1409 AKPAKPA DODOMEY
COTONOU
REPUBLIC OF BENIN.
20/03/2008

Dear Friend,

I have been waiting for
you since to come down here and pick your Bank Draft of $800.000 US
Dollars but did not heard from you since that time.
Then I went and
deposited the Draft with DIPLOMATIC DELIVERY COMPANY here in Benin
Republic, because I travelled to paraguay to see
my boss and will not
come back till next month end. I want You to contact the DIPLOMATIC
DELIVERY COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC to know when
they will deliver your
package and send your informations to them such as;

Name:
============================

AGE:==============================

OCCUPATION: =====================

ADDRESS:
=========================

MOBILE NO.:========================

SEX:
============================
COUNTRY=============
PICTURE=================================


I have paid for the delivery charges and insurance fee.The only money
you have to send to them is their
security keeping fee which is $98.00
US Dollars to received your package.This is their Contact Address,


CONTACT PERSON; DR, WILLIAMS ABADA.
DIRECTOR DIPLOMATIC DELIVERY
COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC.
EMAIL;(globalbasic21@yahoo.fr )
PHONE
+229-934-299-51.

Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid
increasing the security keeping fee.I gave them your delivery
information but you have to
reconfirm it to them again to avoid any
mistake on the transfering.Inaddition the Diplomatic Company doesn\'t
know content of this package. So let me know immediately you receive
your Draft.

Regards,
MR;JIM PETERS.

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