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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.
  • steven_pau1@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "stevenpau" <stevenpau@babbalu.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:57:57 -0500
Subject: (No subject header)

INVESTMENT You may be surprised to receive my letter,
however, I have
decided to contact you for confidential, Urgentand rewarding
joint
business. My name is Mr.Steven Paul, I was a Personal
Assistant to the

Late Congo President, LAURENT KABILA, who was assasinated in
February
2001 and my aim of writing to you is because of the need for
trusted and

honest person, who I can entrust the sum of
US$18,800,000(Eighteen
million), eight hundred thousand US Dollars). Source of the
money: I and

the late president secured this money in a security firm in
Ghana, in my name before his death. Now that he is late, I
want to transfer the
money out of Africa, for investment in your country, I can
not travel out
of Nigeria where I am on asylum, hence I am asking for your
assistance
to have this money in your care pending when I will secure
travel
documents to come over to your country. If you accept this
offer we shall
share the money as follows: for you, 20%, 80% for me. I have
all the title document.
Regards

Mr. Steven Paul
email: steven_pau1@yahoo.com


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