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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic delivery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "diplomatic delivery" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2214304431 (Senegal, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Charles Papis" <charlespapis@rediffmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: charlespapis1@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:18:31 +0000
Subject: If you can apply

Attn:Please,
I am so sorry if I pried into your privacy, it was due to the confidentiality repose to this medium. My name is Mr.Charles Papis,the Manager in charge of Consignment/Delivery Department of Farrar Diplomatic Service here in Dakar Senegal.My company has been widely used for deposit/shipment of vital documents and properties, mostly by prominent leaders in Africa,Europe and Asia.

I just discovered the true content of an unclaimed Consignment valued at $10M that was deposited in the year 2000 by our late customer from your country.For Six years now, I expected any of his relations to put in claim for this Consignment inline with our professional working ethics/guidelines but it's so very clear to me now that this deposit was made unknown to any of his relations. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to contact you to legally release and deliver this Consignment (Funds) to you as the original depositor for safety and subsequent disbursement among us since nobody is coming for it.

The request for a foreign personality like you in this business is occasioned by the very fact that the customer was a foreigner. All I have to do is to process a Deposit Bond issued to you as of the time you deposited the trunk with my company.The United Nation (UN) Office here will issue Anti-Terrorist Clearance Coverage and endorse the shipment in line with the UN embargo on shipment ethics 72 of the delivery Act. I will work out all the shipment process and the special diplomatic delivery to your doorstep or to any of our clearing house closer to you where you will be paid in cash.

All I want you to do is to apply to my company officially for the release of your consignment. Trusting to hear from you ASAP if you are willing to work with me.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Charles Papis
Farrar Diplomatic Service,Farrar House,Dakar Senegal
Tel: +221-430-4431

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