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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:
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Timothy Odaro <timdaro55@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:38:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Holland (Please Call Me)


VICTIMNAME,

I will be expecting your phone call immediately after you read this mail. The payment of the money could be made in Holland. If this transaction would entail your travelling to Holland to conclude all arrangements towards the release of a diplomatic consignment the money will be conveyed in, can you travel there to effect its release? I want to arrange the money to be brought there via diplomatic courier service, cash.
I want you to give me your assurances that you can handle the safe keep of the money as soon as it arrives in Holland and you can bank it within a limited possible time. For this, you will have to make immediate preparations to be in Holland this week as all arrangements towards freight of the consignment containing this money have been concluded.

This process will save you any fears of having to involve your account in receiving this money since no documented ties to the money will be linked to you. I will process papers here on my own and remove the whole money from our bank vault and arrange it to be shipped to Holland where we have such diplomatic landing, so that you can travel there to receive it as it will be shipped in your name. Besides, your country's strict financial laws may pose a problem if we should consider direct wire transfer from here.

I will scan and send you a picture of the money as it will be packaged in the consignment once it is ready. I will send you this by tomorrow. You must try as much as you can to gather some money that you will use in running local expenses there in Holland, around 5000 to 6000 Euros.

Get back to me as soon as possible as to enable me give you information of the officer you will contact in Holland to book appointment with on a possible date of arrival there in Holland.

Waiting for your call,

Timothy Odaro (23417218566)


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