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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:

• 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.
  • monijones@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: tony williams <barris_tonywilliams01@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:21:12 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: my compensation to you Garvyn Werfelmann


Dear, Garvyn Werfelmann

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred
under the cooperation of a new partner from Colombia. Presently I'm in
Colombia 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, her name is Mrs. Monica Jones, through this Email- Address: monijones@myway.com I ask her to send you a draft which i wrote the total some of (US$350.000) for you as my compensation for all the past efforts and attempts which you made to assist me in this matter.
I appreciated your collective efforts at that time. So feel free and get in
touch with my secretary Monica, and discourse with her on how the funds will get to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive the funds so that we can share the joy after all the suffer ness at that time. in the moment, I am very busy here in Colombia because of the investment projects which myself and the new partner are having at hand without confrontations, finally, remember that I had given instruction to my secretary on your behalf to release you the draft, so feel free to get in touch with her
she will send the draft to you without any delay.

Thanks.
Your regards.
Stamped/Dispatched by
Barris, Williams



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