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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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• 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. )
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Fraud email example:

From: ATM PAYMENT CARD <www.info_atmcardpaydept@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:01:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT DEVELOPMENT. PLEASE GET INTOUCH.


Dear Mr Rainhard Schwatzer,

Thanks for your last email. you should not be worried about the matter as i know your concern and will never allow any harm to happen to you. i know you are worried to an extent but i know what i am doing so that it will be better for you and me.

However, i want to let you know that there is another urgent development and we have to be careful to avoid loosing this money to hackers operating internationally.

Do you know one of our customer we paid, the pin code was sent to the customer through courier service but along the transit the atmcard pin code was hyjacked on transit and before the customer could know what was happening someone has used that pin code to cash the money valued about $3.5m dollars. Now the customer is trying to make trouble with us.

Considering what happened, i am planning better ways to finish this business so that you will have the money more safer way and also beat the tax poilcy of germany.
i shall be bringing the money to belgium through our government courier diplomatic company because our embassy in belgium are lack of funds and our government do send them money by cash. in that aspect i will arrange with the government officials and beg them to put your own money along with their own so that when they arrive belgium, they will contact you and you go to belgium to receive the money and even you can open an account in belgium. in this way, you will not pay too much tax and everything will be okay.

finally, this information i am telling you is already arranged hence i only need your confirmation to put it into action and by this week friday the funds will leave for belgium and when they arrive belgium they will contact you.

waiting for your response quickly to tidy up the necessary documents attached to the movement of the funds to belgium.
best regards,
your friend.
Dr Ben frank.







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