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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:
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "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.
  • +22997862048 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
  • +22993793906 (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.
  • customer_care_benin_special@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jimpeters9@freenet.de
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:22:50 +0100
Subject: I am waiting for your urgent response.


Wellcome to Global Max Company,

Good Day.I wish to inform you that i
have Paid the fee for your Check Draft.But the manager of Ecko Bank
Benin Republic told me that before the check will get to your address
that it will expire.So i told him to cash the $800,000.00 in cash
payment.All the neccessary arrangements of delivering the $1,200,000.00
in cash was made with GLOBAL MAX COURIER COMPANY by the bank manager.


The manager of Eco Bank Benin Republic also helped me to package the
money in a consignment box and also registered the box with the GLOBAL
MAX COURIER COMPANY.He registered the box with COMPANY as A BOX OF
FAMILY TREASURES this is for a security reasons.

Please write a letter
of application to the global max courier company on the infomrations
below:

ATTN: ADILI EMMANUEL.
TEl :+229 9786
2048
EMAIL:(global_max_company1999@gobiernofederal.com)
Customer
care:(customer_care_benin_special@yahoo.com)

Please Send them your
contacts information as requested below to able them locate you
immediately they arrive in your country with your BOX. These are the
informations that the company needed from you to delivery your
CONSIGNMENT BOX to you.

1.YOUR FULL
NAME:..........................
2.YOUR
COUNTRY:...............................
3.YOUR HOME
ADDRESS:.............................
4.YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE
NUMBER:...............
5.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE
TELEPHONE:........................
6.A COPY OF YOUR
PICTURE:..................................

Please make sure you send
this needed infos to the Director general of GLOBAL MAX COURIER COMPANY
DR. MARK OLISE with the address given to you above.

I want You to
contact the global max company now to know when they will deliver your
consignment box to you. I have paid for the delivering charges and
insurance fee.The only money you have to send to them is there security
keeping fee which is $355.00 Us Dollars to enable them send the
consignment to your address and for you to receive your it.
Note; The
GLOBAL MAX COURIER COMPANY don\'t know the contents of the Box.The bank
manager registered it as a Box of a FAMILY TRESSURES. They don\'t know
it contains money,this is to avoid them delaying with the Box. Don\'t
let them know that is money that is in that Box.

I am waiting for your
urgent response. You can call the Director of GLOBAL MAX COURIER COMPANY
with this line:+229 9320 7281

Yours Secretary
DR BENSON DONALD.
This
is my mobile phone number to call +229 93 79 39 06
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