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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +2214052189 (Senegal, 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.
  • aghazjohn2000@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: johnaghaz1956@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:19:25 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Investment=20Proposal=2E?=

Dear,

My reason for contacting you is based on an urgent need to invest some
fund amounting to $8,200,000.00 (Eight Million Two Hundred Thousand
United States dollars) into your company or any viable business in
your country. This fund accrued legitimately to us as commission from
foreign contracts, through our private connections. The fund is
presently waiting to be remitted by the apex bank to any foreign bank
account presented by us for this remittance.

However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants in our country,
we cannot acquire this money in our names, because as high placed
civil servants, we are not allowed by the civil service code of
conduct to own or operate foreign bank accounts outside our shores. On
the other hand, it is not safe for us to keep the money here due to
our unstable political environment. What I request is a honest foreign
partner in whose account we will transfer the sum of $8,200,000.00 US
dollars for mutual benefit and further investment projects in your
country. On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be
entitled to your own share of the total sum as gratification. We have
agreed that 30 % of this money will be for you as our foreign partner,
in respect to the provision of a foreign bank account for the
transfer, and 70% would be for me and my colleague. Thereafter I and
my colleague will visit your country for disbursement and further
investmen!
t projects, hence the reason for requesting your sincere co-operation
in working together as partners and receive the funds in your bank
account with total trust.

For further information please contact me immediately on
aghazjohn2000@yahoo.fr

Waiting for your reply message.

Best Regards,
Mr. John Aghaz
Fed Republic Of Senegal
+221 4052189

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