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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 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.
  • +23414751474 (Nigeria, landline)

Fraud email example:

From: "TRANSACTION MONEY" <adotodo@msn.com>
Reply-To: johnalfred@ukrpost.net
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:53:31 +0000
Subject: YOUR COMPERSATION

FROM: MR. OLEMBE JOHNSON
EMAIL:olembejo@msn.com


ATTN:sir/m

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting
those funds transffered under the compersation of a
new partiner from Paraguay.

Presently i'm in South Korea for investment projects
with my own share of the total sum.meanwhile,i did not
forget your past efforts and attempts to assit me in
transffering those funds despite that it failed us
somehow.Now contact my secretary in Nigeria with his
direct phone number ( 234-1-4751474 ) or email address (
johnalfred@ukrpost.net ) and ask him to
send you a Certified Bankers Draft of $800.000.00 US
Dollars which i kept for you as compensation for all
your past efforts and attempts to assisting me in this
matter.I appreciated your efforts at that time very
much,so feel free and getin touch with my secretary
and instruct him where to send the amount to
you.(mailing address).

Please do let me know immediately when you receive it
so that we can share the joy after all the ups and
dowm at this time,in the moment, i'm very busy here
because of the investment projects which i and the new
partiner are having at hand, finally,remember that i
had forwarded instruction to the secretary on your
behalf to receive those money,so feel free to get
intouch with him to send the amount to you without any
delay.

Name of my secretary: John Alfred
Telephone Number : 234-1-4751474
Email ; johnalfred@ukrpost.net
It is Best regards,
MR OLEMBE JOHNSON

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