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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:
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • drj_b1971200888@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Jonathan thambo <jonathantambo23@web.de>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 08:21:48 +0200
Subject: From:Mr.Jonathan Duncan.




Good day,

How are you today, hoping all is well with you and your family? If so, thanks to God. I only want to show my gratitude for your past assistance.

I hope this mail meets you in a perfect condition. I am using this opportunity to thank you for your great effort to our unfinished transfer of fund into your account due to one reason or the other best known to you. But I want to inform you that I have successfully transferred the fund out of my Country to someone else account in Napal who was capable of assisting me in this Great venture.

Due to your effort, sincerity, courage and trustworthiness you showed at the course of the transaction I want to compensate you and show gratitude to you with the sum of USD$1,500,000.00. I have authorized Joe Benson who is based in my country (<?xml:namespace prefix = u2 /><u2:place u3:st="on"><u2:country-region u3:st="on"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><u4:country-region u5:st="on"><?xml:namespace prefix = u4 /><u4:place u5:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Africa</u4:place></u2:country-region></u2:place></st1:place></st1:country-region> ) to issue you the funds of which I directed him to deposit in account on your behalf.

Though, I have been looking for your contact for a very long time, but had no luck only to go back to my old computer of recent to find your contact again. I know the $1.5M is not the percentage we agreed at the inception of the unfinished transaction, but after the investment done by me and the new partner who later assisted me to finish the transaction, I was not left with much, so I decided to give you part of what am left with because my heart has not been at rest ever since when I remember your past assistance.

So therefore, contact Joe Benson for the collection of the funds on the contact information below of which I have given him instruction on what to do as soon as you open contact with him:

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Email: drj_b1971200888@yahoo.com<o:p></o:p>

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Contact him with immediate effect as I am very busy here because of the investment projects which I and my new partner are having at hand in Napal. Finally remember that I have forwarded instruction to him on your behalf to send the $1.5M to you as soon as you contact him.

Please understand that the money can be paid to your account as cash ($1.5M) via telegraphic wire transfer if you want. I will not be able to send you any more emails as result of my tight schedule. I also want you to understand that I am a real human with a heart. Though, you never gave me all the truth I required, but all the same, we thank God for a successful transfer of the funds at the end of the day.

Kindly accept this token with good faith, as this is from the bottom of my heart and also make sure you do not let any one know about the gift until you receive it.

I will want to say a big thanks to you and your family.

Best regards,

Mr.Jonathan Duncan.<o:p></o:p>

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