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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 "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.
  • petersopiah_2006@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: chrissbennih2@yahoo.com.br
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:55:34 +0100
Subject: YOUR REWORDS


MY Friend


I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those
funds
transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from
LONDON .
Presently i'm in LONDON 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 ussome how.Now contact my secretary,his name is
Mr.PETERS OPIAH
contact him on-- petersopiah_2006@yahoo.it

ask him to send you the total $1.200.000.00
which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts
and
attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your
efforts at
that time very much. so feel free and get in touched with my
secretary
PETERS and instruct him where to send the amount to you.
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 bussy here because of the investment projects
which
me and the new partner are having at hand, finally,
remember that I had forwarded instruction to the
secretary on your behalf to receive that money,
so feel free to get in touch with Mr PETER OPIAH he will
send the
amount to you without any delay.


regards

CHRISS BENNIH{engr.}

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