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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:

• 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 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.
  • +22993489858 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Frank Kojo." <faithmaths12@ig.com.br>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:08:17 +0100
Subject: Urgent Respond To UPS COURIER SERVICES///


Attn.Dear,

After several attempt to reach you by phone, I deemed it necessary and
urgent to notify you via email that I have been waiting for you since to
contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft of $850,000.00 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 traveling to meet with my sick boss in
Spain,I will not come back till ending of this year.

What you have to do now is to contact UPS 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 UPS COURIER SERVICES to deliver your
Consignment direct to your postal Address in your country is ($95.00
US) only being Security Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far.Again,
don't be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except $95.00 US. 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 UPS COURIER SERVICES now for the delivery of your Draft
with this information bellow;

Contact Person:Mrs.Edith Patrick.
E-mail: (upscourier.services@live.fr) Contact number;+229-93 48 98 58.
Registration Reference No; wwdsc/xxx/100
Shipping Code:AA22OQ


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 $95.00 US Dollars for
their immediate action.

Note this. The UPS 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,

Dr.Frank Kojo.///

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