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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • +22997901440 (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.
  • unitedpostalservice111@hotmail.fr

Fraud email example:

From: tmorris@freenet.de
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:39:52 +0200
Subject: CONTACT THE UNITED POSTAL FOR THE DELIVERY OF YOUR PACKAGE.


Dear friend,

How are you today ?.I have been waiting to hear from you,
I\'m writing to inform you that I have Paid the fee for your Draft
Check. And I went to the bank to confirm if the Check has expired or
getting near to expire and Mr.wifo silas the Director of B.O.A
(www.boad.org) told me that before the check will get to your hand that
it will expire.

So I told him to cash the Nine Hundred and Fifty
Thousand United States Dollars $950,000.00, to cash payment to avoid
losing this funds under expiration as I will be out of the country for a
3 Months Course and I will not come back till end of dDcember 2008. What
you have to do now is to contact the United Postal Service (UPS) as soon
as possible to know when they will deliver your package to you. for your
information, I have paid for the isurance premium and delivering
Charge.

The only money you will send to the United Postal Service (UPS)
to deliver your Package direct to your postal Address in your country is
US$105 One Hundred & Five United States Dollars only being Security
Keeping Fee for the (UPS) so far.Again, don\'t be deceived by anybody to
pay any other money except US$105 I would have paid that but they said
no because they don\'t know when you will contact them and in case of
dumourrage on your consignment.

Please write a letter of application to
the given address below:

Company Name: United Postal Service
(UPS)
Director: Dr.Obi Ginters
Contact Email:
unitedpostalservice111@hotmail.fr
Contact Tel: +229-9790-1440
Contact
Fax: +229-9688-515

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal
address,nearest local and international airport, Direct telephone number
to them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery.they will issue you a
tracking number to enable you track your consignment box 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 US$105 for their immediate
action.

Note this. The United Postal Service (UPS) don\'t know the
contents of the Box. I registered it as a BOX of box. Africa cloths.
They did not know the contents was money.this is to avoid them delaying
with your Package Don\'t let them know that box contains money
ok.

Thanks and Remain Blessed.

Yours Truely,
Mr.Thompson Morris

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