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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • lucian_dillard@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "donald duke" <donaldduke103@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:17:39 +0100
Subject: COMPENSATION!!!

INDO-NIG GROUP LTD. LAGOS-NIGERIA
622 Sam Road Sanusi Fafunwa
Victoria Island
Lagos Nigeria

 

Dear Friend,

 

     How are you and your humble family today?. I"m happy to inform you
about
our success in getting the fund transferred under the cooperation of a
new
partner from Paraguay.

Presently I am in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of
the total contract sum. Meanwhile, I didn\'t forget your past efforts
and
attempts to assist us in despite that it failed us some how that time.
Note
that I will not be able to access my mail until last week of October.

Now contact my secretary, his name is Lucian Dillard  and his email
address
is (lucian_dillard@yahoo.co.in) ask him to send you the total
$1,500.000.00,(ONE
MILLION,FIVE HUNDERED THOUSAND DOLLARS) draft which I kept for your
compensation
for all your past efforts and attempts in assisting us in this matter.
I
appreciated your efforts at that time very much and may God continue to
reward your good gestures..

So feel free and get in touch with my secretary Mr. Lucian  Dillard and
instruct
him on where to send the Draft containing the money to you by
confirming
to him your full name and address to send it to.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share
the
joy after all the suffer ness at that time. In the moment, I am very
busy
here because of the investment projects, which the new partner and I
are
having at hand and because of this I may not be able to check my mail
until
first week of October, finally, remember that I had forwarded
instruction
to my secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to
get
in touch with Mr. Lucian Dillard and he will send the amount to you
without
any delay.

Note I have attempted to call you but all effort failed and I had to
send
you a mail, which I guessed belong to you.

With best regards

Chief Donald Duke.

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