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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • courie_apex0@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: manuela621@freenet.de
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:03:37 +0100
Subject: GOOD DAY MY DEAR GOOD FREIND,


(HILL & COUNSELORS AT LAW)
06 BP 1409 AKPAKPA DODOMEY
COTONOU REPUBLIC
OF BENIN.

GOOD DAY MY DEAR GOOD FREIND,

Greetings to you & your
Family.I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your
Confirmable Bank Draft of ($1.2m) United States Dollars, but I did not
hear from you since then ,Then I went and deposited the Draft with
Apess Courier Delievery Company ,Cotonou,Benin Republic, before I
travelled out of the country for a short Course and i will not come
back till end of next Month.What you have to do now is to contact the
Apex Courier Delievery Company as soon as possible to know when they
will deliver your package to you because of the expiring date.For your
information, I have paid for the delivering Charges.,The only money you
will send to the Courier & Security Company to deliver your Draft direct
to your postal Address in your country is ($98) only being their Securit
y Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far.Again, Do not be deceive by
anybody to pay any other money except $98.00,I would have paid that but
they said no because they don\'t know when you will contact them and in
case of demurrage.You have to contact the Apex Courier Delievery Company
now for the delivery of your Draft with this information bellow. Apex
Courier Delievery Company Benin Republic.

E-mail: (
courie_apex0@yahoo.fr)
Registration Reference No; wwdsc/xxx/100
Code
Number:xxxdcsc/6545

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal
address and Direct telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake
on the Delivery and Let me repeat again,try to contact them as soon as
you receive this mail to avoid any further delay and remember to pay
them their Security Keeping fee of $98 for their immediate action.You
should also Let me kno w through email as soon as you receive your
Draft.

Note. Apex courier delievery company do not know the contents
of the parcel.I registered it as my photograph (pix) being sent to a
friend overseas. They do not know that it contains a bank draft of such
a huge amount of money.This is to avoid them tempering with the parkage.
Do not let them know know the contents.i am waiting to hear the good
news from you.
Regards,mr johnson mogu.
Unbegrenzter Speicher,
Top-Spamschutz, 120 SMS und eigene E-MailDomain
inkl.
http://office.freenet.de/dienste/emailoffice/produktuebersicht/power/mail/index.html

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