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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. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. )
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +22993417046 (Benin, probably a 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.
  • mr_marccollins001@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mr_marthinsudeh03@microcamp.com.br
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 10:59:34 -0300
Subject: My Dear Friend, You deserve this compensation this time!!!


My Dear Friend,I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting that
payment transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from
paraguay.Presently I'm in Paraguay but by next week I will be in china for
investment projects with my own share of the total sum.Meanwhile,I don't
forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring the
payment despite the fact that it failed us some how in the past. Now contact
my confidential-secretary,by name,MR.MARC COLLINS through his e-mail
addresss: (mr_marccollins001@yahoo.fr) and for immediate payment call him on
+22993417046 or 0022993417046 and ask him to release to you the total sum of
$1.200,000.00m usd(One Million Two Hundred Thousant United State of America
Dollars Only) which I kept for you as your compensation for all the past
efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter.I appreciate your efforts at
that time very much and I feel that there is no better time to show my
appreciation to you than this yuletide season of year.So feel free and get in
touch with my secretary and ask him to immediately release the amount to
you.For you urgent payment call him immediately.Please do let me know
immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy together after all
the sufferings at that time. At the moment,I am very busy here because of the
investment rojects which I and the new partner are having at hand .Finally, be
informed that I had forwarded an instruction to the secretary to release the
money ($1.200,000.00m usd) to you as soon as you contact him and request for
it. Therefore, feel free to get in touch with him. He will release the amount
to you without any delay and please,be informed that the $1.200,000.00m usd is
in an International Certified Bank Cheque (Draft.) I shall for ever remain
gratefull to you.Yours Sincerely,Barrister M.UdehN.B:Reply to him via:
mr_marccollins001@yahoo.fr
_________________________________________________________
Microcamp

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• What can you do when you receive 419 spam