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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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  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: Jno Associates <jno07@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <mrphilipatu@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:31:01 +0100
Subject: Jno. P & Associates.



Dear Friend,I'm happy to inform you about our success in getting the fund transferred to a Swiss Account with the cooperation of a new partner from paraguay who is an international business man.Presently I'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, we did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist us in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.Now contact our secretary for your money, her contact is:Name: Ms Monica JohnsonEmail: msjj2001@excite.comAsk her to send you the total (USD$2.M) which we kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist us in this matter. We appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touched with our secretary Miss. Monica Johnson and instruct her where to send the amount to you.Please do let us know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy together after all the sufferness at that time. In the moment,We are very busy here because of the investment projects which we and the new partner are having at hand.Finally, remember that we had forwarded instruction to our secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Miss.Monica Johnson and she will send the amount to you without any delay.With best regardsJno. P & Associates.
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