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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)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +22993697920 (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.
  • gsp_couriercompany_ltd@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jameswilliams3@freenet.de
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:33:27 +0200
Subject: CONTACT GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY FOR YOUR FUND IMMEDIATELY


ATTENTION DEAR,
I have been waiting for you since to come down here and
pick up your money but I did not heard from you since that time as we
fixed.Then I went and deposited the $1.500.000.00 Million USA Dollars,as
consignment box to GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY LIMITED in Benin
Republic,because I travelled to SAUDI ARABIA to visit my friend and i
will not come back till next month ending.
Below is the needed
information to enable them deliver your fund to you immediately the only
fee you have to pay them is $95 usd the security keeping fee of your
consignment.Contact them with below information of yours to enable them
deliver the consignment without making mistake use this code as the
subject of your email to them ( FT005874 )This will identify you as the
owner of the consignment.
1.YOUR FULL NAME
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS.
3.YOUR
CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER.
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE/MOBILE
PHONE.
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE
6.NEAREST AIRPORT TO YOU.
CONTACT
PERSON; REV:DR DAVID AKA DISTRICT
MANAGER GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY
LIMITED BENIN REPUBLIC.
E-mail:( gsp_couriercompany_ltd@yahoo.fr )

CONTACT PHONE+229-9369-7920

Try to contact them as soon as possible
to avoid increasing the security fee.
Please make sure you send this
needed info\'s to the Director General of GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY
LIMITED DR DAVID AKA with the address given to you (
gsp_couriercompany_ltd@yahoo.fr ) .The shipping company don\'t know the
contents of the Box.I Registered it as a Box of african clothes. They
don\'t know that the content is money this is to avoid them delaying
with the Boxes.Besides,don\'t let them know that is money that is in the
Boxes.

Thanks and Remain Blessed.
BARRISTER NELSON UDO

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