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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Acorn Courier Service Limited <acsltd2007@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 19:41:48 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Acorn Courier Service Department


Mr Wolfgang Foerstmann,
You are to Choose from the options the one you know you can afford in deeming your claims and make the payment for the charges and get back to us as soon as possible.
The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:

Option 1:
Courier your winner cheque to you via any of this channels listed below:
FIRST CLASS

Mailing..............................................£489.00
Insurance..........................................£100. 00
Vat (5%)...........................................£21.95
TOTAL...............................................£610.95

Post office mail
Mailing..............................................£490.00
Insurance..........................................£50.00
Vat (5%)...........................................£19.00
TOTAL...............................................£559.00

Option 2:
The said amount £3,000,000(Three Million pounds sterling),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, which is 0.3% (i.e £1,326.90) 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 before your prize is transferred to you.Moreover,you are reqiured to send payment charges via western union money transfer,of what ever option you have chosen to our dispatch agent ,who is incharge of sending you your cheque and winning documents.

Also,you are required to send to us as soon as possible,these few information below:
(1.)The delivery option which you've choosen.
(2.)Your bank details(if you have chosen option 2, bank transfer.)
(3.)Attach a scanned copy of either your driver's licence, international passport (photo page) or any other legally identifying document and send to us for identification purposes.

Having done this,you would be given proper guidelines on how to go about sending the payment to the our courier security affiliate in London.

Below its the information you are to use in sending the payment to us so that your processing can commence with immediate effect.

Do make payment for any of the charges you wish to use in deeming your winnings and make payment through western union money transfer to the accounts department with the below payment information.

First name... Sandra
Last name.... Woods
Address.....360 Clearamont road,
Manchester,England.

The payment information which includes the MTCN number.senders first and last name,amount paid and country should be mailed to us as soon as payment is made so our account will be able to confirm the payment and proceed the claim of your winnings.


Good luck and Congratulations once again. Please send your response to this same email address.
Mr Frank White





ACORN INTERNATIONAL EXPRESS
Email: acsltd2007@yahoo.co.uk
Phone:+44-7011129142
Courier Officer: Mr. Frank White

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