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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: Unit customer <unitcustomer172@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Unit customer <customer_service.12@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 12:17:26 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: REGARDING RECOVERY OF YOUR LOST MONEY.


FROM INTERNATIONAL(FBI)  UNIT,
REGARDING RECOVERY OF YOUR LOST MONEY.
Tel +1 (407-)680 1703


We hereby inform You Federal  Bureau of Investigation, (FBI) United States of America, the Economic
and  Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria and all the African Crime and  Asia  fighter leaders have come together to stop
scam/internet fraud in Nigeria  and all round Africa. We have recovered over US$2.6 Billion Dollars from  the people we have behind bars.Our
duty is to make sure we stop internet scam and money laundering. As  for today we have put a lot of fraudsters in jail.


We go all over Africa  to pick this internet rats,We have over 8,273 of them in our  jail around Africa and we are still looking for more. We are aware that a  lot of foreigners out there have been deceived and lost their hard earn  money to these fraudsters after promising them
percentages in their  letters/e-mails for their impending help to move funds out Africa  including fake lottery winning notification and at the
end of the day,  they will collect thousands of dollars from you without a successful end.


It was agreed that to retain the good image of our country and the rest of  African countries, all the victims who lost his/her hard earn money to  these faceless thieves will be compensated with just US$500,000,00 (5 hundred thousand Dollars). This we assume
will help you to start a new life.  Please, we apologies that you take our offer as little as it is due to the fact that (victims) in our pay
list are too numerous. We en-back on this  pay back from the money  we recovered from these fraudsters.let us know if you are still interested
to get  your Master Card to you today as he have been waiting to hear  from you to help him complete this delivery to you. Right now the 
United Parcel Service have arrival  United State with your Package,  contact the

Information bellow for your Master Card clearance and delivery.

United Parcel Service Ltd
Address Email: enquiry@ups-cargo.org
E-Mail: customer_service.12@outlook.com
Tel: + (281) 869-7269



Mr DAVID  MORDI

U.P S. COURIER MANAGING DIRECTOR.

Thanks for your expected Co-operation.





































































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