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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • sal_joma@mail2world.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Samuel Nujoma <sal_joma1@mail2world.com>
Reply-To: sal_joma@mail2world.com
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:25:53 +0100
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL


Dear friend,

Please accept my apology for contacting you this way, which was due to the urgency of my request. I got your contact from an enquiry I placed at the Chamber of Commerce, Trade and Industry.

I and my partners are in need of a worthy business partner abroad, who can handle the investment of specified funds which have been lying fallow for sometime. If you accept to work with us, you would be our foreign partner to receive the said funds on our behalf, due to our sensitive position in OUR PLACE OF WORK, and also to hold it in some investment until we can travel to meet with you. At your request I will intimate you with the blueprint when I receive your mail.

NOTE: PLEASE FORWARD YOUR REPLY ONLY TO THIS MAIL BOX STATED HERE: sal_joma@mail2world.com for security reasons and make sure you include your private telephone number for easy communication.

Hoping to hear from you soon. Thank you for your anticipated prompt response.


My regards.

Dr. Samuel Nujoma (PhD)
sal_joma@mail2world.com

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