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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)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • obasi.vivian@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "williams david" <davidwilliams0014@mailbox.hu>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 18:14:58 -0700
Subject: 05-30-2008 goodnews


05-30-2008 goodnews


Dear Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred
under the cooperation of a new partner from paraguay . Presently I'm in
paraguay 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 Nigeria, her name is VIVIAN OBASI on
obasi.vivian@hotmail.com ask her to send you the total of (USD$1.800,000)
one million eight hundred thousand dollars, which I kept for your
compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to as sist me in this
matter in the past.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in
touch with my secretary VIVIAN OBASI and instruct her where to send the
amount to you. 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.

Im 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 VIVIAN OBASI she will send the amount to you
without any delay.


Regards,
SENATOR David F Williams Esq

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam