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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:
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• 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.
  • misstrudy_secretary@yahoo.com.my (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?utf-8?q?miss=20trudy?= <misstrudy_secretary@yahoo.com.my>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 05:26:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: US$950,000.00 COMPERSATION FOR YOU


Saya ada alamat e-mel baru!Sekarang anda boleh kirimkan saya e-mel di: misstrudy_secretary@yahoo.com.my



Dear Friend,



I am happy to inform you about my success in getting

those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new

partner from Hongkong.



Presently I am in Hongkong 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 Cotonou Benin Republic his

name is MISS TRUDY and his Email:

misstrudy_secretary@yahoo.com.my and ask him to send you the

total of $950,000.00 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 touched

with my secretary TRUDY 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

that time. in the moment, I am 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 MISS TRUDY. he will send the amount to you

without any delay.



Thanks and God bless you.

BARR, JAMES DAVID, ESQ.




- miss trudy

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