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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.
  • brombubaagu@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "eze goddy" <godyeze10@nsk.biz>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:07:38 +0100
Subject: Contact My Pasonal Secretary For Your Cashier Check


<brombubaagu@yahoo.it>




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 paraguay
.
Presently I'm in Japan 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 Cotonou Benin his name is Bro Agum Mbuba on
email brombubaagu@yahoo.it ask him to send you the Cashier Check
of $1.200.000.00 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
touch with Bro Agum Mbuba and instruct him 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 sufferings 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 Bro Agum
Mbuba on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch
with him on email address brombubaagu@yahoo.it he will send the amount to
you without any delay.

Yours Faithfully.

Mr Godwin Eze

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