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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "the consignment " (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • info.diplomatic_courierservice@yahoo.co.uk
  • okore.revmartineokore47@yahoo.fr
  • revmartineokore47@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Re. Martine Okore" <revmartineokore47@web.de>
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 02:33:37 +0200
Subject: Dear Friend,


Dear Friend,

You might find it so difficult to remember me, though it is indeed a very long time. On my singular, I am much delighted and privileged to contact you again, after couple of years now. It takes fate, courage and God fears to remember old friends and at the sometime, to show gratification to those despite circumstances that made things not worked out as we projected then.

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the Fund transferred to a Swiss Account with the Cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay who is an International businessman. Presently I'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds de spite that it failed us some how.

Now contact the COURIER SERVICE COMPANY IN LONDON I have package your own share of ($5.8 million USD) in a sealed consignment before sending it to them. Note carefully the content of the crate is "MONEY" but I did not disclose it to the Courier Services as Money, rather I informed them that the crate contain Vital "DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS" belonging to my client (That is you). In the meantime, contact the Courier Service Company London as soon as you receive this E-mail via their email address: (info.diplomatic_courierservice@yahoo.co.uk [mailto:info.diplomatic_courierservice@yahoo.co.uk]) For you to know the actual situation with the consignment and also give Them your address where the consignment will be Delivered and then get back to me as soon as possible So that I can give you the key code number of the consignment.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touched with the COURIER SERVICE COMPANY IN LONDON. In the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects, which the new partner and I are having at hand.

May the peace of the Lord be with you and your family Amen.

Best Regards. Rev. Martine Okore.revmartineokore47@yahoo.fr [mailto:revmartineokore47@yahoo.fr]



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