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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)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • mail2saeed_walla01@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: joseph sanusi <joseph_sanusi990@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:15:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: 013:10:06 GOOD NEWS! SINCERE COMPENSATION




Dear Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund transferred to a Swiss Account with the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay who is an international businessman.

Presently I'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I did not forget you’re past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my Friend, Mr. Saeed Walla, who is a diplomat, I have instructed him to deliver to you your own share of USD$7.5Million. His contact is:

Name: MR. Saeed Walla
Email: mail2saeed_walla01@yahoo.com

Please, I had packaged the fund in a consignment box for safety reasons and also to avoid any alteration of content by impostors. Therefore, you are to send to him your contact address where you want him to deliver the USD$7.5M which I kept for your compensation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free to get in touched with the Diplomat Mr. Desmond Patrick and advise him where you want him to send the consignment.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the suffering at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects, which the new partner and me are having at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the Diplomat to send the cash to you only to avoid impostor, so feel free to get in touch with Mr. Desmond Patrick and he will send the box of the fund to you without any delay.

All you have to do now is to give to him every necessary assistance and support that he may require from you to enable him have a smooth shipment of your consignment.

I have given him every instruction to deliver to you the consignment immediately you get in touch with him without delay. I will give to you the key code to open the consignment as soon as you have received the consignment to avoid any alteration of content.

With best regards
Chief Joseph Sanusi
Former Governor (CBN)


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