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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:

• 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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348033249739 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • drpatrick000004@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: barrister Robert Wilson <barr_robertwilson101@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: robertwil_0001@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:22:34 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Dear Friend.


Dear friend,

This is to inform you about my success in getting the money moved under the co-operation of a new patner from London. Presently, I'm in London for the purpose of investing my own share of the money. Meanwhile i did'nt forget your past efforts and attempts in assisting me to move the cash even though we were not successful. Now contact my Attorney in Lagos Nigeria on the underlisted contact;
NAME: Mr.Patrick.Amachi
Email: drpatrick000004@yahoo.com

Contact: 234-8033-249-739.
Ask him to send you a draft to the sum of (850,000.00)Eight hundred and fifty thousand US Dollars, which I kept for you as compensation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter.
I appreciated your efforts at that time so much. So feel free and contact my Attorney, Mr Patrick Amachi and give him instructions on where to send the money to you. Please let me know immediately you recieve it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferings at that time. At the moment, I am very busy here investing with my new patner.
Best regards,
Robert Wilson.



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