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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:
  • "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. )
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +22993112101 (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.
  • fedex.express1998@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: officefiles3333@freenet.de
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:34:05 +0200
Subject: FEDEX EXPRESS IS READY TO DELIVER YOUR CONSIGNMENT


FEDEX EXPRESS IS READY TO DELIVER YOUR CONSIGNMENT
CONTACT FEDEX EXPRESS
COURIER COMPANY BENIN)
JERRY LEO & COUNSELORS AT LAW
20/22 HOSPITAL
ROUTE COTONOU REPUBLIC OF
BENIN.
EMAIL:(fedex.express1998@yahoo.fr)
PHONE:+229 93 11
2101
Goodday!!!!!!!!
I have been waiting for you since to contact me for
your Confirmable Bank Draft of $1.5m 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 London told me that before the draft
will get to your hand that it will expire. So I told him to cash the
$1.5m 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 December2008.
What you
have to do now is to contact FEDEX EXPRESS 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 premium.
The only money you will send to
the FEDEX EXPRESS COURIER SERVICES to deliver your Consignment direct
to your postal Address in
your country is ($125.00 US) One Hundred &
Twenty 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 $125.00 US Dollars. I would have paid that but they
said no
because they don\'t know when you will contact them and in case
of demurrage.
You have to contact FEDEX EXPRESS COURIER SERVICES now for
the delivery of your Draft with this information bellow;
Directors Name:
Dr. Jerry Leo
Companys NameFedex COURIER SERVICES
Email
Address:(fedex.express1998@yahoo.fr)
Tel: +229 93 11 2101
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 $125.00 US
Dollars for their immediate action.
Note this. The FEDEX EXPRESS
COURIER SERVICES don\'t know the contents of the Box. I registered it as
a BOX of Africa cloths. They did
not know the contents was money. this
is to avoid them delaying with the BOX. Don’t let them know that
box contents money ok.
I am waiting for your urgent response.
SHIPMENT
CODE AWB 33XZS
PACKAGE REGISTERED CODE NO XGT442.
SECURITY CODE
SCTC/2001DHX/567/
TRANSACTION CODE 233/CSTC/101/33028/
CERTIFICATE
DEPOSIT CODE SCTC/BUN/xxiv/-78/01
Thanks and God bless you and your
family.
MR Frank Hank

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