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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: From United Parcel Service <febpatrick735@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ups-73.89@outlook.com
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 05:19:26 -0300
Subject: HELLO BENEFICIARY

DEAR. BENEFICIARY,

This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of
your fund transfer through the Money Gram and Western Union network,
we have credited your total Sum of $7.9 Million, valid fund into an
ATM MASTER CARD and I have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery
of the ATM Card For you,

I paid it because the ATM Card worth of $7.9 Million, which I have
registered it for delivery yesterday has less than 14 days to expire
in the custody of the UPS Company and when it expires, the money will
go into the Federal Government treasury account. With that we decided
to help you pay off the money so that the ATM Card will not expire,
because I trust that when you receive your ATM Card definitely you
will pay me back my money and even compensate me for helping you.

Now I want you to contact the UPS Express at:(ups-73.89@outlook.com)
UPS DIRECTOR FRED JOHNSON,
PHONE +229 60333897

contact them with your physical address you desire the delivery to be
made so that they can deliver your ATM Card to your designated address
without any delay.

1.YOUR FULL NAME_____
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS______
3.YOUR PHONE NUMBER____
4.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE____
5.YOUR AGE/SEX______
6.YOUR COUNTRY_____

Like I stated earlier, the crediting re-activation, delivery and the
company registration charges has been paid by me, but we did not pay
their official keeping fees since they refused, they refused and the
reason is that they do not know when you are going to contact them and
the demur-rage might have increased by then, They told me that their
keeping fees is $25 per day only, and I deposited it few days ago on
the 7ST OF SEPTEMBER 2021

Below is the Contact Information of the
UPS, Express Customer Service
Director Mr. FRED JOHNSON
Email Address; ups-73.89@outlook.com
Phone number +229 60333897

Contact them today and also send them the security official keeping
charge to avoid increase of their fees and let me know once you
receive your ATM card, Important Notice, your ATM CARD package was
registered as a gift so that the diplomatic Agent will not know the
content of your package okay.

Regards.
Mrs Esther Masego

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