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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: "GERALD D. DAYO" <farrnsteadint1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: <farrnsteadint@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:47:20 -0700
Subject: Good day my dear

Good day my dear

My Name is GERALD D. DAYO, the office in charge from DHL EXPRESS
Courier company in Lagos State, Nigeria. my office id card is attached
to this mail. This is to inform you that we have received a package
containing an ATM card worth of $4.5 million dollar from Mr. Tony O.
Elumelu Executive Chairman of United Bank for Africa Plc Nigeria and
we have been instructed to deliver the package to you without any
further delay.
Image result for dhl package

Meanwhile i am very happy to let you know that the delivery fee of
your package has been paid by the United Bank for Africa Plc Lagos
Nigeria Branch where your fund was approved so you don't have to pay
for any delivery fee again, the only thing remaining right now is the
insurance Coverage fee of your package which you are to settle before
your package will be delivered to you.

Note that we cannot take the risk of delivering your package to you
without insuring it because we cannot afford to pay for any loss or
damage in the process of delivering your package to you, try and
understand the situation at hand. However, the tracking number of your
package will be issued to you as soon as we receive the insurance fee
of $100.00 from you, so You are hereby advised to proceed to any
WorldRemit or Ria and send the insurance coverage fee of us$100.00 to
our receiving branch head office in Lagos Nigeria to enable us proceed
with the final delivery to your doorstep,

Below is the information to send the insurance charges of us$100.00
dollars WorldRemit, or Ria money transfer , bear in mind that all you
will ever have to spend to receive this fund is us $100.00 dollars
nothing more nothing more.

Take note that you will have to stop communication with every other
person if you have been in contact with any. Also remember that all
you will ever have to spend is $100 Dollars, nothing more! Nothing
less! And we guarantee the receipt of your fund to be successfully
delivered to you within the next 5hrs after confirmation of the fee of
$100 USD.

Note: Everything has been taken care of, including taxes, custom paper
and clearance duty. So, all you will ever need to pay is US$100
Dollars only
Be advised that you can withdraw money from your international ATM
debit/master card from any ATM machine location or center of your
choice/nearest to you in any part of the world. Please kindly
reconfirm the following details below to avoid any wrong delivery over
this transaction,

1. Your full name:
2. Delivery address:
3. Your direct tel, cell:
4. A copy of your id or id numbers for identification:
5. Nearest airport:

Be advised that this is the only delay we have now and you must do
what you can to comply with the fee so that we can get this done today
or tomorrow morning, so do get back to us when you have sent the fee
as well,
Your package will be sent to you upon confirmation receipt of the
insurance charges fee. We are so sure of everything and we are giving
you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive payment/package
within the next 5hrs after you have made the payment for shipping.

Forward the WorldRemit payment number and Also the Senders Information
to This Office Once the Payment Is Made So That We Can Get Your
Package Insured and Proceed with the Delivery of Your Package to
Your Door Steps.

Reply back to us accordingly; we wait for your expedited response with
the payment.
REGARD

GERALD D. DAYO
DHL EXPRESS Courier Company Lagos Nigeria

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