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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.
  • +447024081162 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • bright_henry01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Michael Smith" <michsmith12@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: michuba1@fastermail.com
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:47:20 +0000
Subject: SINCERE COMPENSATION

SINCERE COMPENSATION

Dear Friend,

How are you today, hope fine. i know you must have been wondering why you
never heard from me ever since then, it was not my fault that is just the
way it worked out for me and 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 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 in United Kingdom his name is

Mr. HENRY BRIGHT
E-mail::bright_henry01@yahoo.co.uk
Tel:+44702 408 1162.

Contact him as i have already instructed him to send you the money
$800,000.00 any time you reached him which i kept for your compensation for
all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated
your efforts at that time very much. so feel free and get in touch with him
and instruct him on how to send the money to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the
joy after all the sufferness at that time. in the moment, I'm very busy 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 him,
he will send the amount to you without any delay.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Michael Smith

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