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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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• 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.
  • +22997298892 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • wilfred_globaltrustcourierinfo@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: richard peterson <mr_richardpeterson001@hotmail.fr>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:25:57 +0100
Subject: Contact The Global Trust Courier For Your Delivering,



Dear Friend,Contact The Global Trust Courier For Your Delivering, I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick up your $800,000.00 Eight Hundred Thousand Bank Draft but I did not hear from you since that Time, then I went and deposited the Draft with Global Trust Courier here In Benin Republic, because I travelled to Iraq to see my boss and will not Come back till next month end.You have to contact the Global Trust Courier to know when they will Deliver your package. I have paid for the delivering charges and registeration Fee. The only money you have to send to them is their security keeping fee of $99.00 us Dollars to received your package? Don't be deceived by Any body this is their Contact Address Contact:Mr. Wilfred JohnsonCustomer's Care DeptGlobal Trust Courier Benin Republic.E-mail :(wilfred_globaltrustcourierinfo@yahoo.fr)Phone number 229-97298892 or 00229-97298892Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid increasing the security Keeping fee. I gave them your delivering address but you have to reconfirm it to them again to avoid any mistake in the delivering. Your 800,000.00 Drafted Check registeration numbers is: GT.12301Please for immediate delivery include your:Full Name: ..............................Your Phone Number(s): ...................Your Registeration Numbers: .............Your Date Of Birth ......................Your Occupation .........................Name Of Your Country ....................Let me know as soon as you receive your Draft. Thanks,Mr.Richard Peterson
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