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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • peteruba51@yahoo.com.mx
  • peteruba45@yahoo.com.mx (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?mr=20peter=20uba?= <peteruba51@yahoo.com.mx>
Reply-To: peteruba45@yahoo.com.mx
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:37:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: investment trustee urgent, read and get back to me


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a: peteruba51@yahoo.com.mx




Dear Sir/Madam



With warm heart i seek your consent to present you as the next of kin and

- - trustee to a business of $6.5million USD deposited in a private security firm in Europe unclaimed. Following the death of my boss (Mrs.Stella Obasanjo,first lady of the federal republic of nigeria)in October last year in a spainish hospital after complication from a surgery operation whose story you can comfirm from the below links: http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-2483.0.html http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/23/obasanjo.obituary/index.html I will kindly and urgently beg for your assistance to immediately get the bonded funds which we were to clear from a security firm based in europe before her surgery that eventually resulted in her death.This is due to the fact that the federal government had set up a panel of enquiry to investigate properly the through purpose of her sudden travel which resulted to her death and it is perceived that within this process this fund which no one else but i and my boss is aware of may be discovered and confiscated.My appointment has for long been terminated and i have decided that once this fund is retrieved i will use it for investment purpose in your country which you are to handle for me. Please get in touch with me through this my private email address. {peteruba45@yahoo.com.mx } indicating your full interest by including your full name,address, phone and fax numbers,employment status and your age next birthday! Regards,! MR PETER UBA!! FMR.SNR SPECIAL ASSISTANT

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