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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 "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• 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.
  • mrs.adlinenkem@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Alfonso Ford" <billmail@purcell.biz>
Reply-To: mrs.adlinenkem@yahoo.it
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:44:11 +0000
Subject: Good News.

Good News.
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 business man.
Presently I'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the
total sum.

Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me
in
transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary,
Her contact is: Name: Adline Nkem
Email Address: mrs.adlinenkem@yahoo.it
Ask her to send you the total $450.000.00 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand
US Dollars) that I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and
attempts to assist me in this matter.

Also do use part of the money for philanthropist purposes for use in helping
the less privileged in your area especially at festive season put a smile
on somebody face and let the world be better for it.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get
in
touch with my secretary Mrs. Adline Nkem and instruct her where to send
the
money to you.

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
I and the new partner I am are having at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your
behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Mrs. Adline
Nkem and she will send the amount to you without any delay.

I beg you in the name of the Most High to use at least 50% of the proceeds
to
put smile on the faces of the less privileged especially during this festive
season.

This is my utmost wish for this donation.

With best regards,
Mr.Ford

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