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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:
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
  • "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 "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• 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.
  • +22997043807 (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.
  • expressservice@mixmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: williams46@freenet.de
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:18:23 +0100
Subject: Hello.


Hello.

I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your
Confirmable Bank Draft of $1.200.000.00 United States Dollars, but I did
not hear from you since that time. Then I went to the bank to confirm if
the draft has expired or getting near to expire and Mr. Justin Yayi the
Director Bank of Africa told me that before the draft will get to your
hand that it will expire. So I told him to cash the $1.200.000.00 USD
UNITED STATES DOLLARS to cash payment to avoid losing this funds under
expiration as I will be out out of the country for a 3 Months Course and
I will not come back till end of July 2008.

What you have to do now is
to contact the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE 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 Charge,
Insurance premium.

The only money you will send to the Courier Company
to deliver your Consignment direct to your postal Address in your
country is ($155.00 US) One Hundred & Fifty Five United States Dollars
only being Security Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far.Again, 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
FEDEX COURIER SERVICE company now for the delivery of your Draft with
this information bellow;and your persnal contact 1full name 2your
conutry 3your age 4your address 5your phone number 6your occupation


Contact Person:Dr. Fred Walter
Email Address:(
expressservice@mixmail.com )
Tel/FAX: +229 97043807.

Finally, make
sure that you reconfirm your Postal address and Direct telephone number
to them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask them to give
you the tracking number to enable you track your package over there and
know when it will get to your address. 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 $155.00 US
Dollars for their immediate action.

Note this. The FEDEX COURIER
SERVICE company don\'t know the contents of the Box. I registered it as
a BOX of Africa cloths. They did not know the contents was money. this
is to avoid them delaying with the BOX. Don\'t let them know that the
box contains money ok. I am waiting for your urgent response.

Yours
Faithfully,
Edward W.Harris.
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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