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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)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • +22998826300 (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.
  • impex_s22@hotmail.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "OFFICE FILES" <officefiles4@centrum.sk>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:53:04 +0100
Subject: CONTACT IMPEX SECURITY COMPANY


Dear Friend.    
 
The office of the Presidency has this afternoon issued a mandate in compliance to the instruction from the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) as contains in this press release. Please read carefully and do the needful.
click this link below for more information
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/ik344.doc.htm
 
The UNCC in conjunction with the Barrack Obama Campaign on the 12th of October 2008 organized a confederation meeting which ended 2 weeks and later with the Secretary General to the UNITED NATIONS that addressed the issue of scam victims. The UNCC in affiliation with Barrack Obama Campaign for Global Economic Crises eradication have agreed to compensate them with categorical payment sum of $1,200,000 each. HSBC bank draft of $1,200,000.00 has been approved by UNCC in your favor and has been forwarded to the paying institution in Benin Republic .
 
Contact IMPEX SECURITY COMPANY Benin Republic {REV PASTOR JAMES MIKE), Tel: +229 98826300, Email: {impex_s22@hotmail.fr } or (impex_s22@hotmail.fr ) and re-confirm your delivery particulars [Receiver’s Name, Address and Contact Phone numbers] as soon as you receive this notification.
 
For your information; due to the several complains received from beneficiaries of this Compensation Payment Programme concerning their inability to receive their payment due to high delivery charge, UNCC have solicited the service of IMPEX SECURITY COMPANY Benin Republic who are considerate enough to charge ONLY $105.00 to deliver your consignment box of $1.2 Million usd to your doorstep.

The United Nations Representatives and the United States Embassy have authorized this charge and mandated that an official receipt should be issued to this effect to ensure that scam victims will have course to smile again. DO NOT ASK FOR DEDUCTION because this payment has been gazette by the office of the Presidency and as such, no deduction or addition can be imposed on it.  NOTE that failure to comply with this directive on or before the end of March 2009 will leave us with no option than to cancel your payment and refer your fund to the Treasury as "unclaimed" and we will not be held responsible for non payment of this compensation due to your negligence of this directive.
 
DO REMEMBER YOUR PAYMENT REFERENCE IS BR/FMWH/1001/08 AND CONTACT REV PASTOR JAMES MIKE HIS EMAIL ADDRESS IS (impex_s22@hotmail.fr) or (impex_s22@hotmail.fr) Phone Number Tel: +229 98826300 FORWARD YOUR FULL INFORMATION TO HIM, CALL HIM AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS NOTIFICATION TO CONFIRM IF HE HAS RECEIVED YOUR PAYMENT FILE AND $1.2 MILLION FROM UNCC.

Yours faithfully
Mrs. Grace Hamza
Director - UNCC

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