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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.
  • franc_ben2000@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: obichris8@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:11:05 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?YOUR=20COMPENSATION=2E?=

My Dear

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds
transferredunder the cooperation of a new partner from Japan.

Presently i'm in Japan for an investment projects with my own share of the
total sum. meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist
me in transferring those fund despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary,his name is FRANK BEN on franc_ben2000@yahoo.fr
ask him to send you the total of $800.000.00 which i kept for your compensation
for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so feel free and get
in touched with my secretary FRANK BEN and instruct him where to send the
amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the
joy after all the sufferness at that time.in the moment, i am very busy
here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are
having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the
secretary
on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with
FRANK BEN he will send the amount to you
without any delay.

with best regards,
HON .OBI CHRIS.

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