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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: James Jacobs <sexyjoelarry@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fedexcfour.revtomfrank11011@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 04:55:09 +0100
Subject: For Your Urgent Attention, Sir/Madam,

--
For Your Urgent Attention, Sir/Madam,

Having reviewed all the obstacles and problems surrounding the
transfer of your Funds and your inability to meet up with some charges
levied against you due to the past transfer options, We the Board of
Directors, United Bank For Africa (UBA Bank) had ordered our Foreign
Payment Remittance Unit to issue you a CORPORATE ATM CARD worth $11.5M,
and we have also registered it with FedEx Courier Company to delivery to you.
Meanwhile we have paid for delivering and insurance charges. The only
money you will pay them is their security keeping fee which they
stated that we should not pay for because they do not know the
duration it going to last in their Office.So i want you to contact
them urgently now to avoid increase of their keeping fee.

Contact, ( fedexcfour.revtomfrank11011@gmail.com ), FedEx Office With
your delivery information such as:

1. Your full name:==============
2. Your home address:===========
3. Your phone:==================
4. Your country:================
5. Your occupation:=============
6. Your age:====================

Required fee- $110 only for security keeping fee.

Like I stated earlier, the delivery and insurance charges has been
paid but we did not paid their office keeping fees because of their
refusal.They refused and the reason was that they do not know when you
are going to contact them and demur-rage might have increased by then.
They told us that their keeping fee is $110.

Here is the week Identification Package Number 5071. Thus, as soon as
you received your parcel do let us know okay.
Please Contact them in order to avoid extra charges.

Yours In Service
Mr James Jacob.

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