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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • ecowasdipomatic@mail2consultant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "georgeeddey@terra.es" <georgeeddey@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:33:44 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: CONTACT ECOWAS DIPLOMATIC SERVICE



Dear Friend,

I am Mr Georege Eddey,I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft of $1.2M United States Dollars being your own share of our past transaction, but I have not heard from you for couple of weeks now. I will be out of the country for the next four Months on Course and I will not be back until end of October 2008,I therefore went to deposit the bank draft with Ecowas Diplomatic Courier Services to enable them deliver it to you.

So please contact the Ecowas Diplomatic Courier Services as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your Bank Draft to you so that it does not incur demurrage. For your information, I have paid for the delivering Charge and Insurance premium. in case of demurage.You have to contact Ecowas Diplomatic Courier Services now for the delivery of your Bank draft so that there won't be any demurrage on it.

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your 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.Finally.


Kindly reconfirm to them the following below information:

Your Full Name-----------------------
Your Address---------------------------
Home telephone---------------------
Office telephone---------------------

Endaevour to indicate this CODE (EDPC 0081) which will prove that you are the owner of the Bank Draft already in their company.Contact the Ecowas dipolamtic courier services via web site : www.ecowasdocs.be.cx E-mail: (ecowasdipomatic@mail2consultant.com)


Yours Faithfully,
Mr Georege Eddey





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