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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 "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• 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.
  • frank_ugokwe0@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "john mba" <johnmba23@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:30:04 +0100
Subject: From Barr JOHN Mba Compensation For Your Past Efforts,


>From Barr JOHN Mba Compensation For Your Past Efforts,
Dearest.Friend

This is to inform you about my success in getting the money moved under the
cooperation of a new partner from South Korea.
Presently i'm in South Korea for investing my own part of the money
Meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in
moved the cash despite that both of us could not make it.

Now contact my secretary,his name is frank ugokwe and his email address is(
frank_ugokwe0@yahoo.fr) ask him to send you US$800,000.00 in a Certified
Draft which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and
attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that
time very much.
So feel free and get in touched with my secretary frank ugokwe and instruct
him where to send the money to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can
share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. in the moment, i am
very busy here investing with my new partner . finally, I have forwarded
instruction to my secretary to send the Confirmable Draft to you, so feel
free to get in touch with frank ugokwe and he will send the Draft to you
without any delay.
Best Regards
Barr JOHN Mba

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