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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:

• 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.
  • victoria_secretary14@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: tony mark <tony22_mark@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:54:24 +0100 (BST)
Subject: your share



Dear ,
I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund
transferred to a Swiss Account with the cooperation of a new partner
from paraguay who is an international business man. Presently I'm in
Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.
Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me
in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.Now contact
my secretary,

her contact is:
Name: Miss.victoria nke
Email: victoria_secretary14@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +

Ask her to send you the total $940.000.00 (nine Hundred and fourty
Thousand US Dollars) 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 touch with my
secretary Miss. victoria nke and instruct her where to send the amount
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 because of the investment projects which me and the new
partner are having at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on
your behalf to receive that money, so get in touch with Miss. victoria
nke and she will send the amount to you without any delay,

your share of the money
With best regards
Senator. Tony Mark


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