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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • keltajoo2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "steve ojo" <steveojo_brr1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: steveojo_brr3@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:23:07 -0400
Subject: contact

Dear sir/ma,
Goodday to you today.
I know this email will come to you as surprise because we have never met
before.I got your
esteem contact through the internet when i was searching and seeking
investment
proposal.Please,bear with me for the imprompt email.
My name is Mr.R.Tajoo,the Chairman,Development Works Corporation of
Mauritius{DWC}.The DWC is the major construction and building corporation
incharge of
Government of Mauritius major projects.In the past many years,we have been
involved in
major contracts executions and had been a successful corporation for the
past 30 years.The
contracts executed has ran into several Millions of US Dollars.
In my capacity as the Chairman of the Development Works Corporation{DWC} i
have been
able to OVER-INVOICE most of the contacts executed under my regime as the
Chairman and
most of the contacts where executed through our foriegn partner assistance
programmes.
The total over-invoiced sum is US$7,000,000:00{Seven Million,US Dollars
only} and it is
presently awaiting payment in the floating account of the BANK OF
MAURITIUS.For the fact
that i am still in civil service,I can not claim the money on my name
because it is against our
civil service law for a serving officer to operate a foreign account or
claim the fund on his
name.Moreover the fund was approved for foreign payment.This is the reason
why i am
contacting you to ask for your assistance to provide a foreign bank account
and front as the
beneficiary to the fund.Note that to benefit for the service that i have
putting many years of
time,experience and energy,i delibrately over-invoiced the contracts sum to
the tune of
US$7,000,000:00 ,Hence,i am asking for your assistance to front as the
beneficiary to claim
the fund in your name to enable me come to meet you for my share.
I am assuring you that this proposal is 100% safe,risk free and legal
because i am going to use
my position as the Chairman to get all neccessary documents approval for the
safe payment
of the money to you as the contractor/beneficiary.
However,because i am still in service,and i don,t want this transaction
exposed,i want you to
keep this transaction strictly confidential and let it be between me and you
only.
For further details and what you may want to know more about
this,please,feel free to email
me so that we can discuss and negotiate your percentage share.
Also,you can visit our official website for
verification:http://www.gov.mu/portal/sites/ncb/dwc/index.htm
Awaiting your urgent reply on my private email ID keltajoo2@yahoo.com
Best Regards,
MR.R.TAJOO

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