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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.
• 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.
  • +2348076146041 (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.
  • joyce_kosoko44@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SOPHIE DAVIES" <sophiedavies_dr_2004@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: joyce_kosoko44@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 04:36:51 +0000
Subject: NOT FORGOTTEN.

Most Respected Friend,

With hope your work and family ok. I am happy to inform you that I finally
succeeded in getting that fund transferred with an assistance of a partner
from Singapore.

Presently, I am in South Korea for investment project with part of what I
got from the total sum. I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to
give me assistance to transfer the fund though along the line was not enough
and we could not continue to realize our mission and target.

However, I do appreciate your effort. Contact my secretary Evang.Dr.Joyce
Kosoko on this telephone number +234-8076146041 and email address
joyce_kosoko44@yahoo.co.uk and ask to send you 948,620,00 USD only out of
the 1.5million USD I left with him to deliver to you and my Swiss friend as
compensation and gratification for your past effort and assistance.

I did appreciate your effort at that time very much and will want you to
feel free to get in touch with Joyce whom I have directed to attend to you
with humility and respect.

You will need to instruct him of how and where to send your due. Let me know
immediately you receive what I left for you so that we can share the joy of
our success after all the suffering and disappointments at that time.

Meanwhile, I am very busy here with my partner concluding arrangement for
aluminum manufacturing investment project hoping to conclude in a month time
by the grace of God.

Remember that I have forwarded strick instruction to my secretary to give
you attention and assistance in transferring this token of my appreciation
without delay.

Thanks so much for everything.

Best regards,
Dr. Sophie Davies

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