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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 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.
  • +2348035047170 (Nigeria, 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.
  • nwafor_frank@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mrs.wiliams@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:08:06 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?THE=20REASONS?=

Attn:Sir

I have been monitoring these your transaction for a very long time with
keen interest but decided not to Engage myself and my position as the Secretary
to the AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK PLC due to the evil men that has been handling
this your transaction. I am aware that these funds will never get to you
because of the Irregularities in your file no matter what you spend.

I now decided to tell you the truth because no one else will do it including
your lawyer but deceiving you and extorting your hard earned money.I hereby
advice you to contact Mr Frank Nwafor the Director,telex dept on foreign
contractors payment that is attached to the Presidency specially for Foreign
Contract and Inheritance Payments who just paid a woman Contractor from
USA (MRS. JULI BROWN) whom her file has similar problem. Her payment was
made possible due to the relationship of Frank Nwafor and HIS EXCELLENCEY
PAST PRESIDENT FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo

Do contact Frank Nwafor on his PrivateTel: 234-803-5047170 Email: nwafor_frank@yahoo.com
and don't ever mention my name before him because that is his personal deal
with Foreign Contractors that has such problem in their file. Tell him that
his contacts were given to you by MRS. JULI BROWN whom he paid on Dec. 15th
2006.

I believe that you will never neglect this my effort upon the receipt of
these your overdue payment.
Forward to me your day to day activities with him to enable me guide you
accordingly.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Elizabeth Williams.

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