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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 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.
  • dmo_janeokekemrs@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "CONTROLLER OFFICE" <www.debt_manegement002@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dmo_janeokekemrs@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:03:09 +0000
Subject: ATTN: NEEDED FROM YOU

Debt Management Office of Nigeria
	DMO Debt Tracking Under Construction ...... Coming Soon           DEAR CONTRACTOR, I AM DIRECTED TO INFORM/CONTACT YOU BY THE DEPT MANAGEMENT OFFICE. WE CINCERELY APPOLOGISED FOR THE DELAY IN YOUR PAYMENT FGC/CONT/003754 OF 2000, THE FEDRAL GOVERNMENT HAS ORDERD YOUR PAYMENT OF TWO MILLION AND THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND (US$2.3,000000.00) DOLLARS. YOU ARE TO SEND US YOUR ACCEPTANCE LETTER TO EFFECT OUR PROCCESSING, WE ALSO WHISH TO HAVE YOUR BANK DETIALS, PHONE AND FAX NUMBER FOR EASY CONTACT. DO NOT HESITATE TO COMPLY WITHING SEVEN DAYS OF RECIVING OF THIS NOTICE AS WILL REGERD ANY LETTER AFTHER THIS PERIOD OF TIME AS NOT REAL AND INVALID. YOU ARE ADVICE TO CONTACT THE HEAD OF STASTICS MRS JANE OKEKE THROUGH HAR EMAIL: dmo_janeokekemrs@yahoo.com FOR MORE DIRECTIVES. LASTLY YOU ARE WARNED TO DISREGERD OTHER CONTACT WITH OFFICES UNLESS AS DIRECTED BY THIS OFFICE. VERY SORRY FOR THE PLIGHT YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH IN THE PAST, ONCE AGIAN ACCEPT MY CONGRATULATION AND GOOD LUCK.   JAMES GREEN (ACCOUNTANT GERNERAL)

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