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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:
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • johnwilliams376650@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mikeobi14 Gazeta.pl" <mikeobi14@gazeta.pl>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:52:16 +0200
Subject: CONTACT MY SECRETARY NOW


Hello My Good Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred
under the cooperation of a new partner from GERMANY .

Presently i'am in GERMANY 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.
NAME / MR JOHN WILLIAMS
Email/ (johnwilliams376650@yahoo.fr)
ADDRESS/Suite 205 Mdomi plaza,
Akpakpa Cotonou Benin.
PHONE NO.......0022993421743

Finally, My dear, please, make sure you foward to him your direct
information
1) YOUR FULL NAME...........................
2) YOUR CURRENT TELEPHONE NO....................
3) YOUR HOUSE ADDRESS..........................
4)YOUR OCCUPTION....................................
5)A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE................................
6)AGE AND SEX....................................
7) YOUR COUNTRY...............................

Ask him to send you the total sum of $1.5 MILLION 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 MR JOHN WILLIAMS and instruct him where to
send the amount to you.but remember, this money is in bank draft,

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 am 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 my secretary on your behalf for
you to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with MR JOHN
WILLIAMS, he will send the bank draft to you without any delay.


Regards,
MR MIKE OBI

Anti-fraud resources:

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