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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:
  • "million united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• 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.
  • +22997908365 (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.
  • ngozie_oveli111@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: china nneli <china_nneli17@hotmail.fr>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:53:49 +0100
Subject: CONTACT MY SECRETR



GOOD DAY,I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transffered under the compensation of a new partiner from Paraguay.Presently i'm in South Korea for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.meanwhile,i did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assit me in transffering those funds despite that it failed us some how.Now contact my secretary in BENIN REPUBLIC with his direct phone number or email address and ask him to send you a Certified Bankers Draft of $2.5 million united state Dollars which i kept for you as compensation for all your past efforts and attempts to assisted me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much,so feel free and get in touch with my secretary and instruct him where to send the amount to you.(mailing address).Please do let me know immediately when you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the ups and dowms at this time,in the moment i'm very busy here because of the investment projects which i and the new partiner are having at hand.Finally,remember that i had forwarded instructions to the secretary on your behalf to receive this money,so feel free to get intouch with him to send the amount to you without any delay.Name of my secretary, Mrs. ngozie_oveli Telephone Number:- 00229 9790 8365. Email below:-(ngozie_oveli111@yahoo.fr) Yours sincerely,Mr. china nneli

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