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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "registration fee" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
• 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.
  • samudo002@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "raph_obeke33 Gazeta.pl" <raph_obeke33@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 02:28:10 +0200
Subject: Contact my secretary.


Attn Dear Friend,

Longest time,How are you and the rest of your family? Guest all is fine,if
so,thank God. Please do not be annoyed to hear this news as you know that
the fault is not from me. I'm happy to inform you about my success in
getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from
India.

Presently i'm in India for investment projects with my own share of the
total sum.meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist
me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.Now
contact my secretary in Benin his name is Sam Udo and his e-mail address
below ; samudo002@yahoo.fr

Ask him to send you the total of $900.000.00 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 touched with my secretary; samudo002@yahoo.fr
and let you and him discuss fine where to send the amount to you. And you
are advised to send him the registration fee as i dropped the delivery fee
before i travelled but i forgot to gave him the registration fees.

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'm 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 the secretary
on your behalf to receive that money, so feel
free to get in touch with Sam, he will send the amount to you without any
delay.

REGARD

Dr.Raph Obeke

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