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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: "Mrs. Megan J. Brennan," <www.@polka.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Megan J. Brennan," <mbrennan863@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:22:47 +0900 (JST)
Subject: WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE


WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
Your details information has been received and confirmed with what we have in our database. We have been waiting for you to contact us for your package that has been registered with us to send it to your residential location, you may be interested to know that a certificate of resignation from President Immunity has also been added to the package deposited by the Attorney General. of the Department of Justice. However, we can not cite the content of the President Immunity waiver by email for privacy reasons. We understand that the content of your package itself was a BANK CHECK CERTIFICATE worth Twenty Million US Dollars. As you know, USPS does not send packages at home, but due to the large amount of this check from the Bank we can not take the risk
to allow you to pick it up at your local post office, so we have decided to deliver it to your door.


Shipping and insurance costs have been paid. Keep in mind that the payment made in the Insurance, Premium and Liquidation Certificates must certify that the CERTIFIED BANK CHECK is not a Drug Affiliated Fund (DAF) nor funds to sponsor terrorists in your country. Second, this will help you avoid any kind of consultation from the Monetary Authority of your State. However, before the delivery agent proceeds to your shipping address, you must send an $ 100 USD iTunes gift card with the total payment of the security maintenance fee of the company UNITED STATE POSTAL SERVICE as indicated on our website. terms and conditions of privacy.

be informed that the Attorney General wanted to pay Security Maintenance charges, but we do not accept such payments considering the fact that all items and packages that are registered with us have a time limit and we can not accept such payment without knowing when It will pick up the package or even respond to us, so we can not take the risk of having accepted such payment in case of any possible enmity. We hope you will respond as soon as possible because if you do not respond until the expiration date of the main package, we can send the package to the British Welfare Commission because the package does not have a return address.

Kindly send the security maintenance charges to the details of our box.

First name;
Country:
State:
City:


As soon as we confirm the $100 USD,iTunes gift card we will immediately dispatch your package to the designated address. Generally, 72 hours are needed to be an express delivery service. Please note that we were not directed to send you an email, but due to the high priority of your package, we had to inform you that the Depositor did not leave your phone number. In fact, we personally seal your CERTIFIED BANK CHECK and there will be no interruption of any US Agency because the president's immunity exemption certificate covers it.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Megan J. Brennan,
General Director of the Post Office and Executive Director.
On 8/2/18 at 11:51 PM, Javier Cotacallapa wrote

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