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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Ms. Linnet Frazier Deily" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dhlcanada.info@post.cz>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:17:59 +0100
Subject: Deposit Code : (#DHL#762)

Hello my dear In Christ, Hope this Email Gets to you In Good Health,! How are you Doing! I am sorry that I could not email you since few months Now, the reason is that I finally found someone from United state whom helped me to receive the Seventy-Nine Million USD With His bank. right now I am in Atlanta GA USA with my KIDS, and I don't forget your effort for Trying helping me to receive the money. but due to the urgency of my traveling, I could not wait or reach you but I drop a Cash consignment Box worth the sum of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand USD $3,500,000,00 USD to The DHL Delivery company In Ontario Canada. They will Deliver the consignment to you as soon as you contact them.

However you can contact the DHL Office whenever you want and ask them to commence with the delivery of the Cash consignment To your address. I have already paid the delivery charges of the cash consignment Box. The Key and password of the Consignment is inside An Envelope which i also deposited with DHL Office. I also deposited 550.KG alluvial Gold's to be deliver to you as a gift from my company.

The only Money you will pay to them is their Security Keeping fee which I don't know how much it will accumulate before you contact them. I will advise you to contact them as soon as you Receive this email To avoid much charges.

Here is the deposit information below
Director Name: Dir. Andrew Williams
Office email: <dhlcanada.info@post.cz>
Director Email:<www-dhldeliver-service-benin@dgoh.org>
Phone: +1-870-788-0405
Deposit Code : (#DHL#762)

I want you to inform me as soon as you Receive the Funds from DHL Office so i can send you the consignment Code, and Please make sure you use the Deposit Code as Your subject when you are contacting them for identification. Once again make sure you include the code (#DHL#762) in any of your email to them. Thank you for your Effort my Good Bless Friend and make sure you inform me once you Receive the compensation cash. May God Lead you.

Regards


Ms. Linnet Frazier Deily
LinnetFrazier@mail2America.com

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