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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 "dying merchant" 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.
  • paulokafor0@mail.ru (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "paul okafor" <mrpaulokafor012@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: paulokafor0@mail.ru
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:45:02 +0100
Subject: PRAY FOR ME


PRAY FOR ME
As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I Believe
Everyone will die someday. My name is Mary Angle I am a merchant of Oman
Nationality but presently residing in London. I have been diagnosed with
Oesophageal cancer .It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and Right
now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts. I
have not rticularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for
Anyone
(not even myself) but my business.Though I am very rich, I was never
generous, I was always hostile to people and
only focused on my business as that was the only thing I cared for. But now
I
regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting
to
have or make all the money in the world. I believe when God gives me a
second
chance to come to this world I would live my life a different way from how I
have lived it. Now that God has called me,I have willed and given most of my
property and assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as a
few close friends. I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul, so I
have decided to give alms to charity organizations, as I want this to be one
of
the last good deeds I do on earth.So far, I have distributed money to some
charity organizations in the Oman,
Algeria and Malaysia. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly,I cannot
do
this myself anymore. I once asked members of my family to close one of my
accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization
in
Bulgaria and Pakistan, they refused and kept the money to themselves.Hence,
I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what
I have left for them. The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge
cash deposit of ($40.9,Million Usd Dollars) that I have kept with a
Network / financial /Security Company in europe. I want you to help me
collect this
deposit and dispatche it to charity organizations.I have set aside 50% for
you
and for your time.
God be with you reply to my privat email (paulokafor0@mail.ru)
paul okafor

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