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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:

• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Charles Udo" <charlesudo02@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:51:39 +0000
Subject: CONTACT MR COLLINS NOW FOR YOUR FUNDS

Dear Friend,

Longest time, i hope all is well together with your family,if so glorybe to
God almighty.Well,Sorry to hear this news and understand that the fault is
not from me.I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds
transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from paraguay.Presently
i'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of total
sum.meanwhile,ididn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in
transferring this funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary in Benin his name is Mr Collins Obi on his e-mail
address stated below:-------(mrcollins2@o2.pl ) Ask him to send you the
total Amount of $1.5million u.s dollars which i kept for your compensation
for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I
appreciated yourefforts at that time very much. so feel free and get in
touched with my secretary Mr Collins Obi and instruct him where to send the
money and send him your Bank details information so that he will submit it
to the Bank where i directed him for them to inffect the payment into your
norminated Bank account without delay.

Please do let me know immediately if you receive it so that we can share the
joy after all the sufferness at that time ok, In the moment, I’m very busy
here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are
having at hand,finally,remember that I have forwarded instruction to the
secretary on your behalf to instruct the paying Bank where i have account to
wire the money to you as soon as you send yourdetails information without
delay, so feel free to get in touch with Mr Collins Obi he will inform Bank
to wire the money immediately to you without anydelay as i instructed him to
do.

Best Regards,
Thank you and may God Bless you.

Dr.Charles Udo

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