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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:
  • "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• 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.
  • royallink_expresscourier@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Rev. Dan Arinze" <revarinze04@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:57:37 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Please read this.


YOU ARE A SCAMMER

From: ROYAL LINK EXPRESS COURIER <royallink_expresscourier@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:48:52 +0100 (BST)
Subject: YOUR COURIER CHARGES FOR PACKAGE CLASSAGDS231-4844(MAKE PAYMENT TO YOUR CATEGORY 2 OFFICER)




ROYAL LINK EXPRESS COURIER SERVICE Depot: London
Address: 205 Rotherhithe Street,
London, SE16 5HW
United Kingdom

........Your joy is our pride. We are always there to deliver your package.

ORDER NUMBER: AMCS231-4844.
Date: 07/07/2007

Dear customer,

we have in our possession for delivery to you:

1. A certified winning cheque of Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollar($500,000)

2. A winning certificate to certify that you are the true winner of the stated funds.
I have tried calling you but your number was not responding. Please,be informed that we do not deliver to P.O.Box address or street corners but to your residence. We are a well established company offering courier and transport services 24 hours a day for priority delivery of letters, parcels and consignments to any destination.

ROYAL LINK EXPRESS COURIER SERVICE with its high security storage and network of affiliate security partners and agents around the world provide you with storage and specialized courier services through which you could send high quality goods like precious stones, art crafts and classified commodities to any part of the world.

Delivery destination information:

Name: Ms Ernesha Koertgen

ADDRESS: Wasserweg 18 Lammbach 87747 Deutschland

TELEPHONE : +49-172-3779857

Your Parcel has been classified a top priority delivery, with delivery identification as CLASSAGDS231-4844.
The description of the parcel to be delivered is stated thus;
An original certificate of weight :-------------0.15kg
Bonded draft of weight :-------------0.17kg
Total weight of parcel :-------------0.32kg
Colour of Parcel :-------------Brown
Note that we do not operate on COD. Below are the mandatory delivery charges that you required to pay to enable us courier your parcel to you:

STATUS OF DELIVERY [PLEASE CHOOSE ONE THAT BEST SUITS YOU]

1). (4 days delivery) Dollars Equivalent
Courier charges .................................:£ 80 GBP $155USD
Administrative .................................: £60 GBP $120USD
Insurance ...................................... :£ 100 GBP $195 USD
TOTAL... __________________ :£240 GBP,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, $470 USD
2). (2days delivery)
Courier Charges ...............................:£170 GBP $ 330 USD
Administrative ........................... ....: £ 80GBP $155 USD
Insurance ....................................: £ 120GBP $235 USD
TOTAL... ___________________:£370 GBP,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,$720USD
3). (24 Hours delivery)
Courier charges ...........................: £ 245GBP $480 USD
Administrative .............................:£ 100GBP $ 195 USD
Insurance .................................. :£ 150 GBP $290 USD
TOTAl.________________:£ 495 GBP,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,$965 USD


















Ernesha Koertgen <ErneKoe399@mozartmail.info> wrote:

I am thankful for your beautiful recent email.

Is it possible for you to kindly make plain what to do for getting hold of my winnings?

As a favour, please mail me all the legal papers relating to my prize. Kindly would you send them to me at:

Ms Ernesha Koertgen
Wieslochgaerten 46
Ringheil
74716
Federal Republic of Germany

You may want to call me on +49 1372775725. It is the phone at my residence. The fax at my job is +49173 8218861. I enclose also my identification for your reference.

It would be kind if you would please tell me some further kind advice about another problem that still makes me perplexed, what about a possible leak about my new funds? This makes me troubled.

Forgive me but my english is not so nice.

I wish that you would not disappoint me. I will hope to read a obliging response from you.

Ms Koertgen

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