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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)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • erico_courier_company2000@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "abrahim sani" <abrahimsani@latinmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:15:33 +0100 (CET)
Subject: CONTACT COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY FOR YOUR FUND OF 800.000 USD.


(ABRAHIM & COUNSELORS AT LAW)
06 BP 1409 AKPAKPA DODOMEY
COTONOU REPUBLIC OF BENIN.
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Dear Friend,
I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your Bank =
Draft of $800.000 usd but did not heard from you since that time.
=20
Then I went and deposited the Draft with Global Security Company here i=
n Benin Republic, because I travelled to Iraq to see my boss and will n=
ot come back till next
month end.I want You to contact the Erico Courier Company to know when =
they will deliver your package. I have paid for the delivering charges =
and insurance fee.The only money you have to send to them is there sec=
urity keeping fee which is $115.00 Us Dollars to received your package.=

=20
This is their Contact Address, Contact Dr. PAUL UDOH
=20
Director Erico Courier Company Benin Republic.
E-mail:(erico_courier_company2000@yahoo.fr)

Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid increasing the securit=
y keeping fee.
Below is the information you required to send to them;
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Full name......................
Home address.....................
Country.........................
Home telphone...............
Office telephone............
Age......................
Sex................
Copy of your id or passport
I gave them your delivering address but you have to reconfirm it to the=
m again to avoid any mistake on the delivering.
_______________________________________________________________________=
__________________________
Note. The ERICO COURIER COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC don't know the contents =
of the Box.=20
I registered it as a Box of an Africa clothes. They don't know it cont=
ents money. this is to avoid them delaying with the Box. don't let them=
know what is contains.I am waiting for your urgent response immediatel=
y you receive your Draft.
Thanks. =20
Secretary Abrahim Sani.


=20


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