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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:
  • "affidavit of claim" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "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 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.
  • +447011147601 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448712518504 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: COURIERNET SERVICE <hynes_couriernetxxpress@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:58:36 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Attention: Freda Meyerlich (Call Me Now +44-703-183-5490 or +44-701-114-7601)


Welcome to courierNet
London's Premier Courier Service




SAMEDAY EXPRESS DOMESTIC OVERNIGHT CONTRACT


Ready to upgrade your Services
COURIER CHARGES/PAYMENT GUIDELINE



25th of June, 2007
Reg Order No:MS231287
Attention: Freda Meyerlich ,

Sequel to your mail, the courier firm is not in any way related to this message of your and we do not partake in hoax in any form. As a result of this, we stand the chance of making possibilities out of the winners notification on what we would decide as this is always the integral feature of our commitment to protect every client/customer falling into any of this so called scam . Please concentrate to conclude the delivery of your winnings cos this LOTTERY PROGRAM has made some meanings to peoples life. Aslo, be reminded that your winning sum is in a bonded state and no person/persons whatsoever can tempered it and Please be advised that your funds are secured with an International Guarantee Bond (IGB).

Note that your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy by MULTI-TRUST INSURANCE COMPANY, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money before it is remitted to you. This means that the above charges cannot be deducted from the prize and hence should be made available by you before your prize can be couriered to your destination.


You are indeed a reputable person who will need this funds cos some persons want this kind of opportunity but its not there for them .

The courier did not ask you to pay any charges and no charges are levied for your delivery but you have to pay for the delivery of your charges to your destination. The content of your letter was duely understood by me and i tell you that your funds is in our escrow pending when you are able to remitt you charges irrespective of the option levied on your delivery charges you may have chosen . We should be looking forward not backward at this point putting a lot of things into considerations, your happiness, family, business ,profession and investment opportunity that will come through the release of this funds ASAP. I will plead with you to see reason why we needto protect your International Casier's cheque and your winning certificate and also protect ourselves from unnecessary exposure if you do not value it but to my humble self and I will leave you with few words on the marble:

1)The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others, in dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways.
1) He will lift some bruised and beaten brothers to a higher and more noble life (Martin Luther King JR).

2) Things never goes so well that one should not fear nor so ill that one should have no hope.(Danish proverb).

3)Note also that we are faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situation(Chuck Swindoll)

4) Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and look like work.

5) There is a tide in the affairs of men, which if taken at the floods leads on to fortune; if omitted, all the voyages of their lives is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea we are now afloat and we must take the current while it serves or lose our ventures. – Shakespeare.


Please, be advice to do this with utmost confidential and submitt your response accross the counter for due processing. Be reminded that your international cashier's cheque, your certificate of winning and the affidavit of claims is ready for delivery and without the reflection of the options of delivering your packages, we cannot sent your routine tracking number, your routine way bill voucher. I await your positive response and do think about this as a winning that you would love to make claims on and i will like to exppress my gratitude that the courier reserves the right to returns back your winnings to the Lottery Body as unclaimed.

Good luck and Congratulations once again. Please send your response within the next 24hrs to this same email address.
Mr. Michael Hynes (Dispatch Officer),
Kingfisher Way London NW108TF

Tel :+44-701-114-7601, +44-703-183-5490
Fax :+44-871-251-8504


Ernest Regards


Open 7days-24hrs-365days a year

Ernest Regards
Mr. Michael Hynes

















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