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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_marccollins006@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mr_marthinsudeh001@microcamp.com.br
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 22:03:48 -0300
Subject: My Dear Friend,




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_marccollins006@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_marccollins006@yahoo.fr


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Microcamp

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