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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • peterubaka@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "mikel ekene" <mikelekene7@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 08:56:08 +0000
Subject: compensation

COMPLIMENT OF THE SEASON AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transffered
under the compersation of a new partiner from Paraguay.

Presently i'm in South Korea for investment projects with my own share of
the total sum.meanwhile,i did not forget your past efforts and attempts to
assit me in transffering those funds despite that it failed us somehow.Now
contact my secretary in Nigeria with his direct phone number or email
address and ask him to send you a Certified Bankers Draft of $800.000.00 US
Dollars which i kept for your as compensation for all your past efforts and
attempts to assisting me in this matter.
I appreciated your efforts at that time very much,so feel free and get in
touch with my secretary and instruct him where to send the amount to
you.(mailing address).

Please do let me know immediately when you receive it so that we can share
the joy after all the ups and dowm at this time,in the moment, i'm very busy
here because of the investment projects which i and the new partiner are
having at hand, finally,remember that i had forwarded instruction to the
secretary on your behalf to receive those money,so feel free to get intouch
with him to send the amount to you without any delay.

Name of my secretary: PETER UBAKA
Telephone Number : 234-1-4725347
Email ; peterubaka@myway.com


It is Best regards,
MR MIKEL EKENE

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