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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)
• 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.
  • +22997229204 (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.
  • emmanuel_agulu@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Jonatha Ifeolise <jonatha_ifeolise@yahoo.it>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:50:31 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: from Jonatha Ifeolise



Dear Friend,

i am happy to inform you about my soccessful in getting a new partner in aguleri whom help
me to transfered the fund into his account.so i am in Mexico now to use my own share of for investment.
but i do not forget your effort that you made last time to make sure
that this fund had transferred into your account but at the end it
seem to been in vain due to the bank charges.

Because of the effort i had made the check of $500,000.00usd which i had kept for your compersation.now contact my secretary to send the check to you whose name is Emmanuel Agulu/ His email adress emmanuel_agulu@yahoo.it ,( phone 00229-9722-9204) free to contact or call him.make sure that if you recieve it you do let me know to share the joy together.finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your behalf to receive that money.

Yours
Jonatha Ifeolise


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