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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:
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • gh.adb@accountant.com
  • gh.adb@consultant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:59:38 +0000
Subject: Your Compensation.




From: Master Don P. Landon.

To My Good Friend, Your Compensation.

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Poland.
Presently I am in Poland for 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 funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact the African Development Bank Ghana (ADB) in Accra Ghana as I stated below and follow there instructions:

Manager Name: Dr. Frank Lopez
E-mail: gh.adb@accountant.com
gh.adb@consultant.com

Ask them to transfer to you the funds worth of ($850.000.00 ) Eight hundred and fifty thousand dollar's which I deposited in the Escrow call Account of there Bank for your compensation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter as I have appreciated your past efforts at that time very much.

So feel free and contact them and instruct them where to transfer the funds to you. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy together after all the sufferings at that time you tried to help me out.

At this moment I am very busy here because of the investment projects which I and my new partner are having at hand.Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the (ADB) Manager on your behalf to transfer your funds to you as soon as you contacted them, so feel free to get in touch with the BANK so that the funds can be transferred to you without any delay and try to be honest with the Bank Manager because he is a God fearing man.

With Best Regards,
Master Don P. Landon.


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