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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "dumorrage" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "courier company" (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 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.
  • +22993478676 (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.
  • tntexpresscc@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: jimpeters30@freenet.de
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:05:23 +0100
Subject: CONTACT TNT EXPRESS COURIER


Dear Friend,
I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your
Bank Draft of $950,000.00 (Nine Hndred and Fifty Thousand United States
Dollars) which my boss kept for your compensation, but I did not hear
from you since for a couple of weeks now. Then I went to deposite your
bank draft with the TNT EXPRESS COURIER here to avoid loosing this funds
because I will be out of the country for a 6 Months Course and I will
not come back till later in the year.
What you have to do now is to
contact the TNT EXPRESS COURIER as soon as ossible to know when they
will deliver your bank draft to you because of the expiring date. For
your information, I have paid for the delivering Charge and Insurance
premium.
The only money you will send to the TNT EXPRESS COURIER to
deliver your parcel direct to your home Address in your country is
($128.00 US) One Hundred & twenty Eight United States Dollars only being
Security Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far.Again, don\'t be
deceived by anybody to pay any other money except $128.00 US Dollars. I
would have paid that but because they don\'t know when you will contact
them and in case of dumorrage.
Below is their email address.... (
tntexpresscc@yahoo.com )
Contact person name is... ( Dr. Chris
Yayi)
Direct Cell.......+229-93-478-676.
Try to contact them as soon as
possible to avoid increasing the security keeping fee and also give them
your contact/delivering address to avoid any mistake on the delivering.
Let me know immediately you receive your Bank Draft.
Thanks.
Mr Jim
Peters


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