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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)
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "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. )
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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.
  • dfofana_ecowasdiplomaticcourier2@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Brisbe Paulet" <mrsbrisbepaulet1@webmail.co.za>
Reply-To: dfofana_ecowasdiplomaticcourier2@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 23:39:15 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Your Bank Draft Is Ready




Dear Friend,


I am Mrs Brisbe Paulet I have been waiting for you since to contact me for
your Confirmable Bank Draft of $1.2M United States Dollars being your own
share of our past transaction, but I have not heard from you for a couple
of weeks now. I will be out of the country for the next four Months on
Course and I will not be back until January 2009,I therefore went to
deposit the bank draft with Ecowas Diplomatic Courier Services to enable
them deliver it to you.

So please contact the Ecowas Diplomatic Courier Services as soon as
possible to know when they will deliver your Bank Draft to you so that it
does not incur demurrage. For your information, I have paid for the
delivering Charge and Insurance premium. The only money you will send to
the Ecowas Diplomatic Courier Services to deliver your Bank Draft direct
to your Address in your country is €105.Euro 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.Euro .I would have paid that but they said
no because they don’t know when you will contact them and in case of
demurage.You have to contact Ecowas Diplomatic Courier Services now for
the delivery of your Bank draft so that there won't be any demurrage on
it.

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your 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. Finally, Endeavour to indicate
this CODE (EDPC 0081) which will prove that you are the owner of the Bank
Draft already in their company. Contact the Ecowas diplomatic courier
services via: dfofana_ecowasdiplomaticcourier2@yahoo.fr

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs Brisbe Paulet

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