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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:
  • "cost of mailing your draft" (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "payment for the courier" (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "deadline" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "vat (5%)" (VAT is 17.5% in the UK but 5% in Nigeria)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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 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.
  • +447011136622 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • worldexpress_24hoursdelivery@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: kacio bekacio <worldexpress_24hoursdelivery@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:01:13 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From the desk of the dispatch officer_W.E.C.S_CLAIM OPTION FOR YOUR TRANSFER/DELIVERY(REG ORDER NO: PC 562725)


TO

WORLD XPRESS COURIER SERVICE LIMITED (W.E.C)
Express®
(REG NO: 194562)
ADDRESS: Victoria House 144-146 BeddingtonLane,
Croydon CR0 4TD United Kingdom .
NAME: MR JOHN HUMPHREY (dispatch officer)
EMAIL: worldexpress_24hoursdelivery@yahoo.co.uk
WEB ADDRESS: www.worldcouriercrc.com
Tel: +44-70111-36622
Tel: +44-70111-36719



REG ORDER NO: PC 562725
BT: #12052006/20
23-12- 2006

ATTENTION: Ruodrik Fied,



WORLD/GLOBAL XPRESS COURIER SERVICES.

Thank you for using our courier company services... We have been forwarded your details from the Fudiciary agent from the Coca-cola online promo Lottery Board, and your order number was also forwarded to us.

This is to inform you that you have been officially cleared for payment by the Verifications/Award Department at the headquarters of the Coca-cola online promotions International.

The original copy of this certificate, together with a covering document (Money Laundering protection and Letter of Affidavit for Claims) from the British government stating that the money was obtained legally through their National promo will be sent to you and the bank as soon as you meet with any of the option selected, and your winnings will be couriered or transferred to you immediately.
You can now begin the final step of the claims process, which is the transferring of your cash prize to you. With regards to this, there are two options open to you, you are required to select the most convenient of the two.
The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:

Option 1: COURIER DELIVERY
Courier of your winning details to you via any of this channel listed below:

(2working days)
Mailing £375.00 00.00 Insurance £140.00 00.00 Vat (5%) £276.75 00.00 TOTAL £791.75 00.00


(3 working days)
Mailing &n bsp £390.00 00.00 Insurance £100.00 00.00 Vat (5%) £199.95 00.00 TOTAL £700.95 00.00

(7working days) Mailing £378.00 00.00 Insurance £180.00 00.00 Vat (5%) £135.45 00.00 TOTAL £683.45 00.00
The insurance company declined reverse payment for the courier, stating that it is against their professional policy towards ensuring the safe delivery of the draft to you. That if a reverse payment is made, and something goes wrong, that we/you cannot sue the courier company or insurance company to recover the full value of the fund as stipulated in the draft since payment for insurance cover was not made at point of mailing.With the above reason, reverse payment is ruled out. Forward the cost of mailing your draft with
any of the courier channel cost you choose above to us.

Option 2: BANK TRANSFER CHARGES

The said amount claim £187.500.00 (One hundred and eighty seven thousand,Five hundred pound sterlings. ) will be wired to your bank account via swift bank transfer.
Condition: The cost of COT (Commission of Transfer) being charged by our transferring Bank is (i.e £1,300GBP) of the cash being transferred will be paid by you.
Note: That your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money before it has been remitted to you. This means that the above charges cannot be deducted from the prize and hence must be provided by you first before your prize is transferred to you.

Please respond to this email by making a selection from the two options above. Also attach a scanned copy of either your driver's licence, international passport (photo page) or any other legally identifying document. Also be reminded that the deadline for the claiming of winnings is exactly two weeks after the receipt of this email. After this period, your cash prize will be deemed to have been forfeited by you and will be reused in the drawings of the next edition of the promo.
you have been adviced to keep all datas and details of this winning promotions and some original scanned documents that the courier will supply to you for your perusal from out-siders too and neigbouring quaters till you finally get you winning prize and documents, based on security reasons of blackmailing and distrust by your suburdinate and not to put the courier company into geopardy and sueing the company for incopetency for safe delivery.

Good luck and Congratulations once again. Please send your response within the next 24hrs to this same email address.

E-MAIL: worldexpress_24hoursdelivery@yahoo.co.uk
E-MAIL: globalexpress_24hoursdelivery@fadmail.com


Tel:+447-011-136-622
Tel:+447-011-136-833
Fax:+448-704-792-476
Monday-Saturday 8(am)-10(pm) G.M.T Sunday 2pm G.M.T





BEST REGARDS

MR JOHN HUMPHREY (DISPATCH OFFICER)
XPRESS SERVICES®





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