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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)
  • "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.
  • mrjeffryben@yahoo.com.br (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Mr=20Jeffry=20Ben?= <mrjeffryben@yahoo.com.br>
Reply-To: jef.fry@live.fr
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:56:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONTACT CHRONOPOST COURIER SERVICES URGENT


Meu novo endereço de e-mailAgora você pode me contactar através do e-mail: mrjeffryben@yahoo.com.br



- Dear Friend, How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?,I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft of $4.5M 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 Mr.James Adams 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 $4,500.000 USD UNITED STATES DOLLARS to cash payment to avoid loosing this funds under expiration as I will be out of the country for 4 Months Course and I will not come back till ending of October 2008. What you have to do now is to contact CHRONOPOST COURIER SERVICES as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your Consignmen 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 CHRONOPOST COURIER SERVICES to deliver your Consignment direct to your Address in your country is $75.00 only being Security Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far. Again, dont be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except $75.00 .I would have paid that but they said no because they dont know when you will contact them and in case of demurage.You have to contact CHRONOPOST COURIER SERVICES now for the delivery of your Consignment with their email as : jef.fry@live.fr 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, Endaevour to indicate this CODE (CP0081) which will prove that you are the owner of the package deposited in their company.Their email address again is jef.fry@live.fr and the Manager is Dr Patrick Martins. Also note that I registered it as a BOX of Africa Arts materials. They did not know the contents was money. This is to avoid them delaying with the BOX. Yours Faithfully, Mr Jeffry Ben

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