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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • hosboard@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: H M <hosboard@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mitchellad56@satellite-email.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:59:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE:COMPLIMENTS


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: hosboard@yahoo.com

RE:COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON

Dr Ela Noye

Federal Ministry of Health

Public Hospitals management Board

P.o.Box 35467. Garki, Abuja.


Compliments of the season to you and your entire family. I know that

this e-mail message will come to you as a surprise because we have never

meet before now. However i choose to reach you via e-mail because it

remains the fastest and more secured way for communication.

My name is Dr Ela Noye contract coordinator for the building

and maintenance of all Public Hospitals in all the 36 states of the

federation and the federal capital territory with the federal ministry of

Health and the hospital management board.

The federal ministry of health and the hospital management board

awarded this contract in the year 2004 for building and maintenance of all

government public hospitals in the federation. This contract was awarded

to a German firm.

This contract have been fully executed and commissioned and full

payments made to the contractors.

We were able to over invoiced the contract sum to the tone of

US$4.5million,this $4.5m is what we want to transfer abroad with the co-operation

of a reliable and a confident partner.

We the contract committee members have agreed that your share of the

total amount $4.5m ,you will take $.5million as your share while

us$4million will be shared amoung we the committee members. I know that

this proposal will look too good to be truth based on the scam parading worldwide

but you just have to accept it in good faith and the modalities to transfer

the fund $4.5m have been perfected awaiting any account of your choice.

If you find this proposal interesting, Please do not delay to reply me

as a matter of urgency with your phone number so that i can call you for

a more detailed discussion with you if you find it interesting and you wish

to co-operate with us.

Yours truly.

Dr Ela Noye



- H M

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