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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:
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22993231693 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • douglas111arinze@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Douglas Arinze <douglas111arinze@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:50:32 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: bank draft


Dear Ms Leonore Traugen
i received your mail and understand that you are instructed by my boss to contact me regarding the draft he wrote on your name before his travel to south America. well this money is in bank draft i will mail it to you and you cash it from your bank. Therefore all i required from you is the cost of mailing the draft to you via diplomatic courier services and your home address where to deliver the draft in person .contact me either email or phone to discus on how to receive the mailing cost to enable me send the draft to you as soon as possible.

you are right person that has it ,and all thes people is fake and i will send it to
as soon as we finalised with the courier company.so you have to send your full information.
waiting to hear from you. TELEPHONE +229 9323 1693
regards,


Douglas

Leonore Traugen

Dear Sir,

If you found that my english is not nice, I am sorry but it is not my mother language.

To be direct I am a little muddled because I have been told to get in touch with several email addresses regarding a personal and essential issue. Can you please peruse the enclosed email and tell me whether I am at last in touch with the right party to do this work for me? I am just a little uncertain.



--- Forwarded email ---
Attn: My Dear
COMPLIMENT I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those fund=
s transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Dominican Repub=
lic.Presently I'm in Dominican Republic for investment projects with my o=
wn 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 Benin rep Africa his name is Dou=
glas Arinze E-mail
douglas111arinze@yahoo.co.in
Ask him to send you the total cash chaque of $800.000.00 EIGHT HUNDRED T=
HOUSAND DOLLARS which I kept for your compensation for all the past eff=
orts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your collect=
ive efforts at that time so feel free and get in touch with my secretary =
Douglas Arinze and instruct him where to send the amount to you.Do it fas=
t before the CASH CHAQUE EXPIRED.
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 in Dominican Republic because of the investment projects which mys=
elf and the new partner are having at hand without confrontations
finally Remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary on yo=
ur behalf to receive that CASH CHAQUE so feel free to get in touch with =
Douglas Arinze my secretary he will send the CHAQUE to you without any de=
lay.
With best regards
Barrister Willimas Benja=20

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