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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 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.
  • petcovex@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • jacksonwhite6@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ELec Contacter" <eleccontacter@msn.com>
Reply-To: jacksonwhite6@myway.com
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:32:36 +0000
Subject: MR SAM PAULINE.

FORM SAM PAULINE
EMAIL:petcovex@yahoo.com

Hello Friend,

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

Presently I’m in South Korea for investment projects with my own share of
the total sum.meanwhile,ididn't forget your past efforts and attempts to
assit me in transffering those funds despite that it failedus somehow.Now
contact my secretary in Nigeria his name is Jackson White with his direct
phone number or email address is (jacksonwhite6@myway.com or+23451608600
eleccontacter@msn.com)ask him to send you the total $800.000 thousand us
dollars which i kept for your compersation for all your past efforts and
attempts to assist me in this matter.i appreciated your efforts at that time
very much,so feel free and get intouched with my secretary Jackson white 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 sufferness at this time,in the moment, i'm very busy here
because of the investment projects which me 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 Jackson White
to send the amount to you without any delay.

with best regards,
MR,SAM PAULINE

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