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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: "FEDEX" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <stecia.fdxservice@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:23:38 -0800
Subject: Adviced To Contact Immediately

FedEx Nigeria Head Office
70 International Airport Road
Mafoluku, Lagos
Date: Thursday/11/10/2011

Attention:


CLAIM NOTIFICATION.


This is to notify you that your parcel is still in our possession, this parcel contained an International Cashier ATM CARD worth the sum of $850,000.00(Eight Hundred $ Fifthy Thousand USA dollars)only and it is ready for delivery to your door step. Meanwhile, before the delivery or shipment will take place, you are advice to send to us the following data’s mention below:


1. Your Name
2.Address
3.Telephone


The above requested information’s will enable us deliver your parcel correctly without any mistake or delivering your parcel to a wrong person. Furthermore,you might be asking yourself how comes this email, your ATM CARD was brought to this office by a Lottery Fiduciary Agent Or Claim Agent, signifying that you are a rightful winner to their Lottery Award selected randomly from 10 lucky email addresses which your email address is one of the lucky email address.


FedEx courier service company mailing you as per your parcel that was brought to this company to be delivered to you by lottery groups, along the delivery process that brought a misunderstanding between you and the lottery claim agent and in regards of their request as per their insurance certificate cost, tax fee and lots of other universal cops and drug searches which happened to be the course of your parcel being pending for the past months/one year.


Meanwhile we are hereby happy to inform you that the FedEx Company has finalized and resolved the whole issued with the legal offices like the International Monetary of Funds(IMF),and the Internal Revenue Service(IRS) office, the company organization has also listed 24 valuable parcel’s to be intact in their office after the released of the parcel’s from universal cops and drug searches.


We are happy to inform you once again that your parcel that contains the sum of $850,000.00 is among the 24 parcel’s listed which is now in our office and also with your name as the receiver despise that we lost your private residential address’s, which is anindication that you can now re-send your residential address, telephone as stated above back to the FedEx company where your parcel can be delivered to you without hesitation.


The tracking number of your parcel will be sent to you via e-mail immediately so that you can track it yourself to see your parcel coming on the way and you will also know when it will arrive at your country because we operate in trust and loyalty in your favor. And also the FedEx Courier Service Company hereby inform all their customers through this media by eradicating all their communication with the scam mails that are going all-over the world be careful with their e-mails so that your parcel will not be in danger with their evil planes.


FedEx provides access to a growing global market place through a network of supply chain, transportation, business and related information services.


FedEx is one of the world's great success stories, the start-up that revolutionized the delivery of packages and information. In the past 30 years, we've grown up and grown into a diverse family of companies as FedEx that's bigger, stronger, better than ever.


E-mail: (stecia.fdxservice@gmail.com) Update Us Now.

WAITING TO READ YOUR E-MAIL.
YOURS AFFECTIONATLY.
FEDEX COURIER MANAGING DIRECTOR..
MR.NORRIS DAVID.

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