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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.
  • +221775393221 (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.
  • eng_martinhenry@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • papis_prince@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ENGNEER MARTIN HENRY" <eng_martinhenry@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: eng_martinhenry1@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:16:26 +0000
Subject:

Engineer Martin Henry.
Villa 139 Sicap Diuppel Dakar Senegal.
BP 234 Dakar-Senegal.
Email: ( eng_martinhenry@yahoo.com <mailto:eng_martinhenry@yahoo.com> )
Tel +221-77 539 3221.

Attn:
It is a delight to have your esteemed contact, hence my pleasure to inform you that I am Martin Henry, 59yrs old civil servant and presently due for retirement as a director in a government parastal here in Senegal.

The object of this introduction is to seek your interest in a confidential fund transaction that will involve your participation as a sub-contractor in our ministry. I will give you more details of the program as soon as I receive your positive response and will be ready to share proceeds with you 50/50 since our mutual commitment is imperative to achieve the desired success.

Ensure that you include your direct access telephone and fax numbers for further communication.
My Alternative email address ; ( papis_prince@hotmail.com <mailto:papis_prince@hotmail.com> )
My warm regards to your family.

Engr. Martin Henry.

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