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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 Matthew <"www."@hop.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: MIKE William <officefile272@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:46:37 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Diplomatic agent

Diplomatic agent

I wish to inform you that our diplomatic agent conveying your consignment box valued the sum of $5.7 Million
United States Dollars well packaged in a metal Box just for safety of the fund in the Box arrived
United States Of America in Texas today and he is currently in Muscat International Airport Texas
and he is stranded just because he lost your delivery address on transit. He left our country Benin Republic
since 3 days ago and be rest assured that he dont know that the Box contained money so take note that you
dont have to dispose the content of the Box to him for security reason to avoid him letting the customs

know that the content of the Box is United States Dollars.All you need to do now is
to reconfirm to him the below information to avoid wrong delivery of the box to a wrong person.

(1)Your Full Name=============
(2)Mobile Phone Number======
(3)Current Home Address========
(4)Occupation====================
(4)Fax Number================
(5)Country====================
(6)City======================
(7)Nearest Airport ==============
(8)A Copy of Your I D For Identification. Please do contact the diplomatic agent with the email below with the
information required for your consignment Box delivery as soon as possible today as soon as you receive my email.

Contact Person :Agent;(MIKE William) (officefile272@yahoo.com) He is waiting to hear from you today with the information.
NOTE :The Diplomatic agent does not know that the content of the consignment box is $5.7Million
United States Dollars and on no circumstances should you let him know the content. The consignment was moved from here as
family clothes and jewelries so never allow him to know the content here is the Consignment Box Unlocking Code (B6654BTY) by the left hand side.


Thanks

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