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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (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 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.
  • globaltrustcouriercom@post.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: williams45@freenet.de
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:34:48 +0200
Subject: CONTACT GLOBAL TRUST COURIER COMPANY FOR YOUR DELIEVERY


Attn/ My Good Friend,
Happy New Year,

I have been waiting for you
since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft of $1.5million
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 $1.5million 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 June 2008.

What you have to do now is to contact GLOBAL
TRUST COURIER COMPANY LIMITED 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 and Insurance.


The only money you will send to the GLOBAL TRUST COURIER COMPANY
LIMITED 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 demourage.

You have to
contact GLOBAL TRUST COURIER COMPANY LIMITED now for the delivery of
your package with this information bellow;

CONTACT PERSON; Edward
Charles, DISTRICT
MANAGER,GLOBAL TRUST COURIER COMPANY LIMITED E-mail:(
globaltrustcouriercom@post.com )
CONTACT PHONE 00 229 978 436 61
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
GLOBAL TRUST COURIER COMPANY LIMITED don\'t know the contents of the
Box. I registered it as a BOX of Africa cloths. They did not know the
content is money. this is to avoid them delaying with the BOX.
Don’t let them know that box contains money ok. I am waiting for
your urgent response.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr. williams.

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