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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:

• 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.
  • tony_mba_2001@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "mike uju" <mike_uju26@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:16:58 +0000
Subject: Now contact my secretary

My Dear Friend.

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund $10.7m
transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay. Presently
in Paraguay 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
my secretary,tony_mba_2001@yahoo.fr his name is tony mba and his Email
Address secretary ask him to send you the total $800.000.00 which i kept
for your compensation for all the past efforts and attemptsto assist me in
this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so feel free
and get in touched with my secretary tony mba 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 suffer ness at that time. in the moment, i am very usy
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 tony mba, and he will send the amount to you without any delay.

with best regards
HON; MIKE UJU



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