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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +22997798558 (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.
  • fedexshippingcompany41@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:46:47 +0100
Subject: PLEASE CONTACT FEDEX COMPANY FOR YOUR DELIVER






=C2=A0DearSir/Madam=20
=C2=A0
I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank=
Draft
of 1.2 million United States Dollars, but I did not hear from you for a v=
ery
long time now. Then I went and deposited the Draft with FEDEX SHIPPING CO=
MPANY
HER IN BENIN REPUBLIC , Cotonou, before I travelled out of the country fo=
r a 3
Months Course which I will not come back till ending of Auguest 2008.What=
you
have to do now is to contact the FEDEX SHIPPING COMPANY BENIN as soon as
possible to know when they will deliver your package to you before the
expiration date of the bank draft.
=C2=A0
For your information, I have already paid=C2=A0 the delivering Charges fe=
es.The
only money you will send to the FEDEX to deliver your Draft direct to you=
r
postal Address in your country is ($155.00US) Dollars only being Security
Keeping Fees. Again, don't be deceived by anybody to pay any other money
except $155.00 US Dollars. I would have paid that but they refused becaus=
e they
don't know when you will contact them for the shipping due to the delay
deumorage charges.
=C2=A0
You have to contact the FEDEX SHIPPING COMPANY now for the delivery of yo=
ur
Draft with this required=C2=A0 information below:
Contact Person : Dr Ben Chika.
Email Address=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 fedexshippingcompany41@yahoo.fr=20
Tele phone +229-97-79-85-58
Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address and Direct tele=
phone
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 k=
now
when it will get to your address.
=C2=A0
Let me repeat again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail=
to
avoid any further delay and ask them to give you the information where yo=
u
will=C2=A0 pay them their Security Keeping fees of $155.00 US Dollars for=
their
immediate action.You should also let me know through email as soon as you
receive your Draft.
=C2=A0
Regards,

Mr=C2=A0=C2=A0 Peter Uba

=C2=A0

=C2=A0

=C2=A0


=C2=A0

=C2=A0

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