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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:
  • "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 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.
  • fedexcouriersavicebenin100@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jimpeters8@freenet.de
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:48:56 +0100
Subject: FEDEX COURIER SERVICES


Goodday!!!Ihave been waiting for you since to contact me for your
Confirmable Bank
Draft of $850,000 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 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 $850,000
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 March 2008.What you have
to do now is to contact FEDEX COURIER SERVICES as soon as
possible to
know when they will deliver your Consignment 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
FEDEX COURIER SERVICES to deliver your
Consignment direct to your postal
Address in your country is ($105.00 US)
One Hundred & Five United States
Dollars only being Security 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 SERVICES now for the delivery of your
Draft
with this information bellow;
Directors Name: Dr. Sheriff Guagan
ompanys
Name:FEDEX COURIER SERVICES
Email Address:
(fedexcouriersavicebenin100@yahoo.com)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 $105.00 US
Dollars for their immediate
action.Note this. The FEDEX COURIER SERVICES
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 box contents money ok.I
am waiting for your urgent response.Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Raphael Chika.

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