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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: AGENT MARK <"WWW."@oak.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: AGENT MARK <agntjamesmark2017@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:13:31 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ATTENTION

This is Diplomatic Agent MARK JAMES from UPS
Shipping Company Benin Republic,I have been mandated to deliver your
Consignment box worth $6.5 Million United States dollars from UPS
Benin Republic to your doorpost and I am presently in
Terminal 4 in SAN DIEGO'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT USA,which
serves as a major international hub for Delta Air Lines at SAN DIEGO, I
arrived SAN DIEGO'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT USA yesterday at about11:15am
EDT.

I have under-gone custom inspection at the airport but I am still
having a little problem here with SAN DIEGO'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT USA
Authority intercepting the Consignment box with regards to the Inspection
Tag which is delaying my coming to the address you supplied to make
the delivery to you, They persisted that I must obtain the Inspection
Tag from the shipment origin before I will be allow to make my
delivery to you at residence address,otherwise they will inspect the
package since is sending from individual to individual.

I presented the Clearance certificate, Yellow Tag and my American Gate
Passing certificate but they refused,All the legal back up papers to
prove to them that your fund in Consignment box is not related
with drug nor terrorism act, has being submitted and handed over to
the SAN DIEGO'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT USA here and they are very much
pleased with the papers,

Moreover, the only thing delaying me here at airport was Inspection
Tag which is not placed on the Consignment box to avoid them not to
inspect your
Consignment box and view it’s contents, they insisted that the Tag
must be place on the Consignment box before they can issue approval stamp to
enable me deliver your box successfully to your personal receipt
today without any interference, the cost is $380 USD only to get the
tag.

In addition you can direct the tag fee to our Head Office as they will
get the tags over there according to per instruction given to me here
by the Airport Authority at SAN DIEGO'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT USA.

Use the details below to send the required charge fee $380.00 via
Western Union or Money Gram Money Transfer to enable the delivery
success.

Receiver Name........EGO CHRIST

Receivers country.... Benin Republic

City.... Cotonou

Amount.... $380

Text question.....GOOD

Text Answer.........GOOD

I wait your reply with the payment confirmation details so I can
forward the details to our company in Cotonou Benin Republic for
immediate action of securing the needed Inspection Tag so that I can
deliver your Consignment box to your personal receipt today

Thank you & God Bless.

Always At Your Service,
MARK JAME

Email Address:( agntjamesmark2017@yahoo.com)

Cell phone: (757)598-3095

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