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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:
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • globalspeedcourier_company001@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "chukwu emma" <chukwuemma@latinmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:20:06 +0100 (CET)
Subject: CONTACT SKY VIEW COURIER COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC FOR YOUR $1.5,000


Hello my dear,

I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your money=

but I did not heard from you since that time as we fixed.Then I went

and
deposited the $1.5,000 000.00 Million USA Dollars,as consignment box to=

GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY LIMITED in Benin Republic,because I
travelled
to SAUDI ARABIA to visit my friend and i will not come back till next
month
ending.

I want You to contact the GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY LIMITED to know=

when they will deliver your package. I have paid for the delivering
charges.
The only money you have to send to them is the security keeping fee,
which
is $185.00 Us Dollars to received your
package.

CONTACT PERSON; DR.DAVID AKA DISTRICT
MANAGER GS Courier Company Limited BENIN REPUBLIC.

E-mail:( globalspeedcourier_company001@yahoo.fr )

CONTACT PHONE 229-9769-7920

Try to contact them as soon as possible I gave them your delivering
address
but you have to
reconfirm it to them again to avoid any mistake on the
delivering.Reconfirm
below
information to the company.

Your Full Name-----------------------

Your Address---------------------------

Home telephone---------------------

Office telephone---------------------

Your pic----------------------------------

Let me know as soon as you receive your package,and check the contents

weather
the complete of the total $1.5,000 000.00

Regards
Barr.Nelson Udo (ESQ)

CONTACT SKY VIEW COURIER COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC FOR YOUR $1.5,000
000.00
USA DOLLLARS



La carrera hacia la Casa Blanca, a un click de distancia http://www.sta=
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