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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:
  • "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)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +2348086028672 (Nigeria, 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.
  • royalerranddelivery1988@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "RE:YOUR HONESTY PAYMENT IS READY." <eleazer01@bigmir.net>
Reply-To: royalerranddelivery1988@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 18:58:48 +0100
Subject: RE:YOUR HONESTY PAYMENT IS READY.


RE:YOUR HONESTY PAYMENT IS READY.

FROM;THE CREDITS AND BILLS LIQUIDATION OF C.B.N AND BCEAO.
message codes;;00/cbn/bceao/002219/29/05/2008

May I use this juncture to notify you that new Government have Paid the
bills which was the cause of the delay of your Payments, and the
Managements of CBN and BCEAO has put your funds into a foreign draft,and
find out that before the Draft will reach you it may getexpired due to
the unreliability of the corrupted postal service here, and we decidedto
convert the Draft into Cash, (boxed money)the sum of $6.500,000.00 so to
deliver it to you in Cash on your
Personal receipt at your DESTINATION in your country.

We which to deliver your Payment through this system to avoid another tress
of K.T.T and so on all the necessary arrangements of delivering the
$6.500,000.00 in cash to you has been made with ROYAL ERRAND DELIVERY
LIMITED YOU have to get in touch with ROYAL ERRAND DELIVERY LIMITED via
email or telephone immediately.

Below are their contacts

Contact Person In-charge : Mr. Lyd Brown
TEL: 234 8086028672
EMAIL:(royalerranddelivery1988@yahoo.co.uk )
Please Send them your contacts information to enable them locate
youimmediately they arrive in your country with your CONSIGNMENT .

* Full Names.................
* Address. (not P.O.Box)..............
* City..................
* State.................
* Postal Code...........
* Phone.................
* Email................
* Age...................
* Occupation...........
* Marital Status...............
* Sex...............
* Nearest Airport.....................

Note... The ROYAL ERRAND DELIVERY LIMITED will contents of your delivery,it
was a special registered - as a box of FAMILY TREASURES.Once-more ? You
will pay the sum of $225 R.E.D.L fee of FORCE OF NATURE so that the
detective agents will not open the BOX
for search while on transit,as the content was not disclosed; please
request for the tag of the said FORCE OF NATURE from the R.E.D.L, this is
to avoidrepeating delaying or Mischeifing with your payments by any
Governments agent while on transit. so be very confidential,and so letit
be.

CHEERS ,
DR SAMUEL SODEH.
PAYMASTER C.B.N & BCEAO CREDITS AND BILLS


Contact immediately via :TEL: 234 8086028672

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