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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:
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • +22993697920 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • gspcourier_company001@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: charleseze@emsergipe.com <charleseze@emsergipe.com>
Reply-To: gspcourier_company001@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:08:33 -0300
Subject: Hello My Dear,

Hello My Dear,=20I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your money b=ut I did not heard from you since.Then I went and deposited the $1.500 00=0.00 Million USA Dollars,as a consignment boxes 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 Y=ou to contact the GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY LIMITED to know when they =will deliver your consignment boxes to you please waist no time in contac=ting them with the below information.Your Full Name----------------------- =20Your Address---------------------------Home telephone---------------------=20Office telephone---------------------Your pic----------------------------------=20=20I have paid for the delievery fee so the only money you have to send to t=hem now is the security keeping fee of your consignment.Please as soon as= you recieve this boxes open it with this code numbers to comfirm if the =total of 1.5 million usd is in it.THE FIRST BOX CODE ( 0036589 )THE SECOND BOX CODE ( 0014759 )THE THIRD BOX CODE ( 4475855 )CONTACT PERSON; DR.DAVID AKA=20DIRECTOR GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC.E-mail:( gspcourier_company001@yahoo.fr ) = =20CONTACT PHONE+229-9369-7920 OR 00229-9369-7920=20AND I WANT YOU TO KEEP THIS CODE NUMBERS CONFIDENTIAL IN YOUR HOME TO AVO=ID ANOTHER PERSON GETTING INTHOURCH WITH YOUR MONEY MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND= YOUR FAMILY.Let me know as soon as you receive your consignment. =20RegardsBARR CHARLES EZE

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