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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: "Post Office" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <publcations@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 02:24:47 +0100
Subject: Contact Post Office For Delivery of Your Cashier Check

United States Postal Service
Post office in Montgomery, Alabama
Address: 6701 Winton Blount Blvd, Montgomery, AL 36119, USA

Greetings,

I'm the new appointed Postman of Regular Mail Post Office AL. I assumed this office on 25th, Aug, 2018. While going through the files of the previous records of this office, I discovered that there are six parcels containing Cashier Check each one attached with an email address of the owner on it. The former applicant of this office (Johnson Raymond.) failed to carry out the delivery as it was planned and programmed. Probably, one of his reasons for not carrying out the delivery was that you have not provided your postal address to him for the completion of the delivery as he remarked.

According to the content recorded in each file, the CHECK was deposited by one Senior Evangelist Mathew A. Robert who died one year back as a charity foundation parcel to each of the six of you. On the statement he wrote on the list, he stated that each of the aforementioned CHECK contains the sum of US $ 1,550,000.00 and he found your email contacts as reputable and capable persons that can use the charity awarded CHECKS to change the lives of people.

Meanwhile, I've made the arrangement of posting the six parcels through Regular Mail Post Office to the six of you to your relevant mailing addresses.

Do not be surprised in case this message appears in your mail box as "undisclosed recipients" because I am sending the same message of the same content to six of you that own the six abandoned ATM CARDS each at the same time. If found in spam folder, it could be due to your Internet Service Provider, ISP. So move to your inbox before your reply.

This issue was reported to board of directors in this company that some Cashier CHECKS was discovered in my office and they verified it and they ordered me to carry out the delivery immediately you reconfirm your mailing address to this office in order for us to mail the check directly to you after Postal Stamp of the parcel. Note, below information is officially needed for posting of the CHECK ASAP.

Full name
Full mailing info
Your cell phone line
Country
Nationality
State
City

We will post your CHECK once you update us with the above info and you will be given a tracking number to Track and monitor the departure and arrival to your address once it is posted.

Remain blessed as I'll be looking forward to receiving your immediate response.

Regards,
Barr. Sam George,
Post office in Montgomery, Alabama

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