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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)
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • luck_mouro@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "barrsani mohammed" <barrsani_mohammed01@latinmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:39:23 +0100 (CET)
Subject: CONTACT MY SECRETYARY


Dear Friend,

Longest time and happy day . I'm happy to inform you about my success
in
getting
those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from
japan.
Presently
i'm in holand for investment projects with my own share of total sum.
mean
while, i
didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in
transferring
this funds
despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary in Benin his name is Mr Luck Mouro on his
e-mail
address
stated below (luck_mouro@yahoo.fr) Ask him to send you the total
Amount of
$1.3m u.s dollars 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 Luck Mouro and
instruct
her where
to send the check. And send her your contact information such as below
your full name ..............
home address ...............
phone number .............
your sex age ...............
so that he will submit it to the courier company where i directed him
to
mail the
cashier cheque to your designated address without any delay.

Please do let me know immediately if you receive so that we can share
the
joy after
all the sufferness at that time ok, In the moment, I’m very busy here
because of the
investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand .
Finally
,remember that I have forwarded instruction to my secretary on your
behalf to
instruct the courier company to deliver the cashier cheque to you as
soon
as you
send your details information without delay.

So feel free to get in touch with my secretary send the cheque to you
without any
delay .

Best Regards,
HON Sani mohammed



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