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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.
  • +22993580262 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "BASSY WILLIAMS" <bassywilliams8@me.by>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:19:56 +0800
Subject: I HAVE REGISTERED YOUR CONSIGNMENT WITH FEDEX.


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Hello My Friend, *

*I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmed Bank
Draft of ($850,000) Eight hundred and fifty thousand U.S Dollars, but I did
not hear from you since for a while, Then I went to the bank to confirm if
the draft has expired or getting near to expiring date 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 U.S DOLLARS to cash
payment to avoid losing this funds under expiration, As I will be out out of
the country for a( 3) three Months Course and I will not come back till the
ending of december 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 ($150.00 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 $150.00 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.Aminu Yusuf
TEL TEL +229 93580262
Companys Name:FEDEX COURIER SERVICES *

*Email Address:
(**fed_in_focom_pany200200@live.fr*<fed_in_focom_pany200200@live.fr>
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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 remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee
of $150.00 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 that the contents
was money. this is to avoid them delaying with the BOX. Don't let them know
that the box contents *

*is money ok. *

*I am waiting for your urgent response. *

*Yours Faithfully,
Bassy Williams,*

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