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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:
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
  • "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 "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• 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.
  • fed_expressmails@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: johnmark4@freenet.de
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:33:43 +0200
Subject: Goodday!!!


Goodday!!!
I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your
Confirmable
Bank Draft of $850,000 United States Dollars, but I did not
hear from you
since for a couple of weeks now. Then I went to the bank
to confirm if the
draft has expired or getting near to expire and
Dr.Wilson the Director Bank
of Africa told me that before the draft will
get to your hand that it will expire.

So I told him to cash the
$850,000 USD UNITED STATES DOLLARS to cash payment
to avoid losing this
funds under expiration as I will be
out of the country for a 3 Months
Course and I will not come back till
ending of January 2009.

What you
have to do now is to contact FEDEX COURIER SERVICES as soon as
possible
to know when they will deliver your Consignment to you because
of the
expiring date. For your information, I have paid for the
delivering
Charge, Insurance premiu.

The only money you will send to
the FEDEX COURIER SERVICES to deliver
your Consignment direct to your
postal Address in your country is ($105.00
US) bOne Hundred & Five
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 $105.00 US Dollars.

Directors Name: Dr. Aminu
Yusuf.

Companys Name:FEDEX COURIER SERVICES.

Email Address:
(fed_expressmails@yahoo.fr )

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your
Postal address and Direct
telephone number to them again to avoid any
mistake on the Delivery and ask them
to give you the tracking number to
enable you track your package over
there and know when it will get to
your address. Let me repeat again, try to
contact them as soon as you
receive this mail to avoid any further delay and
remember to pay them
their Security Keeping fee of $105.00 US Dollars for
their immediate
action.

I am waiting for your urgent response.
Yours
Faithfully,
Dr.John Mark.


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Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam