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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • barwilliams2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MS VERA JOHNSON" <verra444llove@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: vera444love@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:47:57 +0200
Subject: GOOD NEWS

Dear ,
I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Japan. Presently I’m in Japan for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I didn't forget you’re past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how. Now contact my personal attorney, his name is BARRISTER MARTIN WILLIAMS contact him on his E-mail address(barwilliams2@yahoo.com <mailto:barwilliams2@yahoo.com>) asks him to send to you the parcel which I gave to him to keep, and in that parcel is contained of a check of ($250,000.00)(two hundred fifty thousand dollars only), which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter although he is not aware of the content of the parcel because all I told him is that you will contact him and as soon as you contact him you will then tell him how t!
o send the parcel to you. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touch with him and instruct him where to send the parcel to you. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the suffer ness at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects, which the new partner and me are having at hand, finally,
remember that I had forwarded instruction to the Friend on your behalf to send the parcel, so feel free to get in touch with him he will send the parcel that contained check of $250,000 dollars amount which I have kept for your compensation to you without any delay.
With best regards
MS VERA JOHNSON

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