419 scam: "Dr. Dorothy Cooper"<rev.charlesokoro1@yahoo.com.hk> ***Your ATM CARD Delivery Tracking Number: ***803588128318***

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "high court" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +2348081409453 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- rev.charlesokoro9@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Dorothy Cooper" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rev.charlesokoro10@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:46:09 +0100
Subject: ***Your ATM CARD Delivery Tracking Number: ***803588128318***

WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAM
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017, USA

OUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX048 UNITED NATIONS.

Greetings,

***Your ATM CARD Delivery Tracking Number: ***803588128318***

We were authorized by the newly appointed United Nation Secretary General, and the Governing body of the United Nations Debt Reconciliation Unit, to investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment, recommended and approved in your favor. During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been
unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials of the Bank and Government regulatory organs in Nigeria who are trying to divert your funds into their private accounts.

However, our reason for contacting you on this day is to inform you that your ATM CARD valued/credited for $5 million dollars was dispatched through Federal Express Courier
Service(FedEx) but at the point of dispatch on the 22nd of November, 2013 at 11:49am and delivered on 26th of November, 2013 at 10:03am to one Mr.M.Clarke who contacted our Head
Office in Nigeria that he is your representative and that you gave him the authorization to receive the package on your behalf and he presented an Affidavit to our Office claiming to
be Approved by the High Court of Nigeria and duly signed by you.

Meanwhile,We sent you series of emails in this regards but you did not respond back to us; However, in the course of our routine scrutinize into our Dispatch Alert, we discovered that the document presented to us by Mr. G Clarke was not approved by the High Court of Nigeria and we discovered that Mr. Clarke was an impostor trying to claim your parcel which has been delivered to our Legal Department in ONTARIO, ON CA.

For your information, the parcel has been Delivered at ONTARIO, ON CA and was scheduled to you. To verify this information, go to www.fedex.com and type in the tracking number below to view delivery status.

www.fedex.com
Your Tracking Number: 803588128318

Therefore, you are advised to contact Mr.Ifeatu Onejeme the ATM Managering Director of United Bank For Africa Nigeria Plc with the information below; to enable him re-schedule the delivery of your ATM Card to your home address and also ensure that you keep the new Tracking Number that will be given to you once the package has been placed on transit via FedEx to avoid any further obstruction;

Contact Name: Mr.Ifeatu Onejeme,
Position: ATM Managering Director of United Bank For Africa Nigeria Plc.
Email: (rev.charlesokoro9@yahoo.com.hk)
Direct Telephone line: +234-808-140-9453

As soon as you establish contact with him, ensure that you provide your present address as below to the contact in other for the Officer to effect the change and Re-direct the parcel
to your home address.

1) Your Name.
2) Your Contact Address for Shipment of the Card. (NOT P.O Box)
3) Your Phone, Mobile numbers for oral Communications.

We expect your urgent attention to this email to enable us monitor this payment effectively. Inline with the mode of operation of the Federal Express(FEDEX), you shall be
required to make contact to the above Office for immediate delivery process of your package.

Sincerely yours,

Dr.(Mrs) Dorothy Cooper
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTER,
NEW YORK. USA

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