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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: "Fexdex Payment Office" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <Dr-susan.wayner@yandex.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:42:45 +0200
Subject: Ensure you reply .

Attention Recipient

This email is coming to you as a constant reminder concerning your
pending package which has been held up in our overseas custody in the
United State. The Package contains an international certify Bank Draft
in your favour and in the amount of $2,850,000.00 (Two Million, Eight
Hundred And Fifty Thousand) us dollars only and an attached covering
letter.

The package left Lagos-Nigeria on January, 2013. It has been held up
at Memphis, USA awaiting clearance and redirection after two (2)
unsuccessful delivery attempts to your residential address. To track
the availability of your package, go to www.fedex.com/tracking and
insert the tracking number below to view delivery status.

http://www.fedex.com/ng/
Tracking Number: 800277347645

You are hereby advised to provide and reconfirm your delivery address
so we can immediately re-issue the (Air) Waybill for the clearance and
redirection of the parcel to your exert address. You are advised to
contact us as the designated recipient on the (Air) Waybill as soon as
possible for clearance and delivery reschedule. Do confirm and
provide us with your exact recipient delivery address.

FULL NAMES:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS/ZIP CODE
CITY:
STATE:
COUNTRY:

Note that if you fail to provide the information within a reasonable
time as FedEx may determine in view of the financial instrument
enclosed, the package will be considered undeliverable as the parcel
does not have a return address and may be refer to the commission for
warfare. For the avoidance of doubt, FedEx assumes no responsibility
for its inability to complete a delivery due to incorrect and
incomplete recipient's address whether or not it attempts to notify
the recipient. This is our third and final notice in respect of the
above subject matter. Please note that clearance and redirection
requirement fees will be $180 US Dollars only. For urgent response,
Please E-mail us or call the below 24 hours service line for
assistance.

Thank you
Dr Susan Wayner
FedEx Online Management Team.
All rights reserved. © FedEx 1995-2013.

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