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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +2348024423609 (Nigeria, 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.
  • oluchambers@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: shola_anu@microcamp.com.br
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:17:43 -0200
Subject: Thanks and God bless you






Dear friend,





How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family? I hope this
mail meets you in a perfect condition. You may not understand why this mail
came to you. But if you do not remember me, you might have receive an email
from me in the past regarding a multi-million-dollar business proposal which





we never concluded.





I am using this opportunity to inform you that this multi-million-dollar
business has been concluded with another person who financed it to a logical
conclusion. I thank you for your great effort to our unfinished transfer of
fund into your account due to one reason or the other best known to you. But
I want to inform you that I have successfully transferred the fund out of my
bank to my new partner's account that was capable of assisting me in this
venture.





Due to your effort, sincerity, courage and trustworthiness you showed during
the course of the transaction I want to compensate you and show my gratitude
to you with the sum of $750,000.00. I have left an international certified
bank draft for you worth about $750, 000.00; cashable any were in world





with a law-firm in Nigeria owned by a reputable attorney, OLUWA FEMI ESQ. Who
actually helped in the conclusion of the multi-million-dollar business in the
legal aspect of the transaction.





I have authorized OLUWA FEMI ESQ to release the international certified bank
draft to you as soon as you contact him regarding this issue. My dear friend
I will like you to contact this law-firm for the collection of this
international certified bank draft. At the moment, I am very busy here
because of the investment projects which myself my new partner are having at
hand. Please I will like you to accept this token with good faith as this is
from the bottom of my heart.





CONTACT: OLUWA FEMI ESQ





ADDRESS: PLOT 144 ADEKULE AVN ISOLO LAGOS NIGERIA





EMAIL: oluchambers@myway.com





TEL: +234-802-442-3609





Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hope to hear from you soon.





Mr. Shola Anu




_________________________________________________________
Microcamp

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