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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: Joash Alban <joash.ALBAN@beetle.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: dhl.c@fastservice.com
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 01:24:48 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attn, Bank Ready for Payment

Dear beneficiary,

After Having reviewed the obstacles surround the transfer of your Funds $850,000,00 USD, and your inability to meet up with some charges levied against you due to the past transfer options, We the Board of Directors of United Bank For Africa Plc (UBA Bank) ordered our Foreign Payment Remittance Unit to issue you a uba ATM card, and we have also registered it with DHL 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 stay in their Office before you contact them for the shipment to you. So we kindly inform you to contact them urgently now to avoid increase of the keeping fee.

Contact, ( dhl.c@fastservice.com ) DHL Office with your delivery information such as:


1. Your full name:==============

2. Your home address:===========

3. Your phone:==================

4. Your country:================

Required fee- US$78 only.

Please take note of this, the delivery and insurance charges has been paid but, we did not paid the security keep deposit fees to the company 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 security keep deposit fee is Seventy-Eight United States Dollars (US$78), only per day.

DESCRIPTION OF Your PARCEL:

ATM card/original certificate of weight:------------20kg
Bonded draft of weight:---------------17kg
Total weight of parcel:----------------37kg
Color of Parcel:---------------Brown
Length of days:--------------24hours or Your Choice
Delivery Type:------------Premium Service
Delivery Status:-------------Virtual Pending

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.


Sincerely,
Dr. Joash Alban
New Director, Banking and Payment System Department
United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA Bank),

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