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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: GUARD ALLIANCE SECURITY Diplomat Post <paulartwright.ambassador12@gmail.com>
Reply-To: guardasecu.philb00@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 10:08:08 -0700
Subject: GUARD ALLIANCE SECURITY Diplomat Post (YOUR PACKAGE AVAILABLE FOR DELIVERY)

1001 Allen Ave Lagos Nigeri
Phone: +2349090361234

Attention Parcel Owner:

We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirmed Package
that is registered with us for shipping to your residential
location.We thought that the sender gave you our contact details and
that you would have contacted us by now. We would also let you know
that a letter is also attached to your package.However, we cannot
quote its content to you via E-mail for privacy reasons.


We understand that the content of your package itself is a ATM CARD
$800,000.00 USD, in GUARD ALLIANCE SECURITY Diplomat Post we do not
ship money in CASH or in CHEQUES but in ATM CARD only.The package is
registered with us for mailing by your colleague, and your colleague
explained that he is from the United States but he is in Nigeria for a
three (3) month Surveying Project. for he is working with a consulting
firm in Nigeria West Africa. We are sending you this E-mail because
your package is
been registered on a Special Order.

What you have to do now, is to contact our Diplomat Department for the
immediate dispatch of your package to your residential address.



Note that as soon as our Delivery Team confirms your information, it
will only take us one working day (24 hours) for your package to
arrive at its designated destination.For your information, the VAT &
Shipping charges as well as Insurance fees have been paid by your
colleague before your package was registered.

Note that the payment that is made on the Insurance, Premium &
Clearance Certificates, are to certify that the Bank Draft is not a
Drug Affiliated Fund (DAF) neither is it funds to sponsor Terrorism in
your country. This will help you avoid any form of query from the
Monetary Authority of your country.

However, you will have to pay a sum of $205 US Dollars to the GUARD
ALLIANCE SECURITY Diplomat Post for the Security Keeping Fee of the
FedEx company as stated in our privacy terms & condition page. Also be
informed that your colleague wished to pay for the Security Keeping
charges, but we do not accept such payments considering the facts that
all items & packages registered with us has a time limitation and we
cannot accept payment not knowing when you will be picking up the
package or even respond to us. So we cannot take the risk to have
accepted such payment in case of any possible demur rage.


Kindly note that your colleague did not leave us with any further
information.We hope that you send your response to us as soon as
possible because if you fail to respond until the expiry date of the
foremost package, we may refer the package to the British Commission
for Welfare as the package those not have
a return address.


Kindly contact the delivery department (Diplomat Post) with the
details given below:

GUARD ALLIANCE SECURITY Diplomat Post
Contact Person: Mr. Phil Baldwin
guardasecu.philb00@gmail.com
Phone Number : +2347037957239

Kindly complete the below form and send it to the email address given above.

This is mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone numbers.

FULL NAMES:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
COUNTRY:

YOU ARE TO GET BACK TO US IMMEDIATELY, SO WE CAN ISSUE YOU DETAILS ON
HOW YOU ARE TO SEND THE MONEY FOR THE SECURITY KEEPING FEE OF $205 US
DOLLARS.

Kindly complete the above form and submit it to the delivery manager
on: guardasecu.philb00@gmail.com As soon as your details are received,
our Diplomat will give you the necessary payment procedure so that you
can effect the payment for the Security Keeping Fees. As soon as they
confirm your payment receipt of $205 US Dollars.

They will not hesitate to dispatch your package as well as the
attached letter to your residence. which usually takes 24 hours being
an over night delivery service.

Note: that we were not instructed to email you, but due to the high
priority of your package we had to inform you as your sender did not
leave us with his phone number because he stated that he just arrived
Nigeria and he has not gotten a phone yet. We personally sealed your
ATM CARD and we found your email contact in the attached letter as the
recipient of the foremost package.

Ensure to contact the delivery department with the email address given
above and ensure to fill the above form as well to enable a successful
reconfirmation.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr Phil Baldwin.
GUARD ALLIANCE SECURITY Diplomat Post.
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