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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • +22993409141 (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.
  • fedexcourier_benin@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jimpeters15@freenet.de
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:04:11 +0100
Subject: I HAVE REGISTERED YOUR CONSIGNMENT WITH FEDEX


I HAVE REGISTERED YOUR CONSIGNMENT WITH FEDEX
Dear Friend,
I have been
waiting for you since to contact me for your ConfirmableBank Draft of
$950,000 United States Dollars, but I did not hear from you since for a
couple of weeks now.Then I went to the bank to confirm if the draft has
expired or getting near to expire and Dr.Wilson the Director of ECOBANK
told me that before the draft will get to your hand that it will
expire.
So I told him to cash the $950,000 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 ending of jane 2008.
What you have to do now is to contact FEDEX
COURIER & SHIPPING COMPANY as soon as possible to know when they will
deliver your Consignment to you to avoid delay. For your information, I
have paid for the Delivering charge and Insurance premium.
The only
money you will send to the FEDEX COURIER & SHIPPING COMPANY to deliver
your Consignment direct to your postal Address in your country is
($105.00 US) only beingSecurity Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so
far.Again, don\'t be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except
$105.00 US Dollars.
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 FEDEX COURIER & SHIPPING COMPANY now for
the delivery of your package with this information bellow:and Call them
immediately you have received this mail,
Directors Name: Dr.Onodu
Ugo
Tell Phone: +229-9340-9141
Email Address:
fedexcourier_benin@yahoo.fr

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 yourpackage 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 $105.00 US Dollars for their immediate
action.
Note this. The FEDEX COURIER & SHIPPING COMPANY don\'t know the
contents of the Box. I registered it as a BOX of cloths. They did not
know the contents was money. this is to avoid them delaying with the
BOX. Don\'t let them know that box contents money ok.
I am waiting for
your urgent response.
Regards,
Mr. Jim Peter


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