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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 "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348025807352 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • johngonzalez2005@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • tadepoju2000@mail.md

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?John=20Gonzalez?= <johngonzalez2005@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: thomasadepoju2005@mail.md
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:28:04 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: COMPENSATION


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a: johngonzalez2005@yahoo.es

Dear Friend,



This may come as a pleasant shock .Firstly, I must thank you for being there for me when I needed you most even through the very difficult times in the transfer procedures in Nigeria.I say a very big THANK YOU !!!!!


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


Presently I'm in South Korea for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.meanwhile,I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assit me in transffering those funds despite that it failed us somehow.


Now, I want you to contact my secretary in Nigeria and ask him to send you a Certified Bank Draft of $3.5 million U.S dollars, which I kept for your compensation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter His name is : Rev. Thomas Adepoju. You can contact him via the email address as follows : tadepoju2000@mail.md OR tadepoju2000@earthlink.net


I advise that you call him at his cell phone number :+234-802-5807352 .


It is better you call him.Please do establish contact with him so he can send you the Bank Draft.


Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can sharethe joy after all the suffering at this time,in the moment.


I am very busy here because of the investment projects which me and my new partner are having at hand.


I AM VERY SORRY I CANNOT GIVE YOU MY PHONE NUMBERS HERE FOR SECURITY REASONS. HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND.




with best regards,



MR. JOHN GONZALEZ



- John Gonzalez

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