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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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 orphan 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.
  • mrjohnsonmartins@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Johnson martins" <mrjohnsonmartins@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:17:14 +0000
Subject: Reply.


Hello Dear,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to
establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I
believe i have that confident in you, to succeed sometimes in life you have
to take some risk.There is this huge amount of Three Million Eight hundred
thousand United States Dollars (US$3,800,000.00) which my Late Father
deposited in the Finance House in Dakar Senegal, before his sudden death.

Now I have decided to invest this money in your country or anywhere safe
enough outside our country for security and political reasons.I want you to
help me claim and retrieve this money from the Finance House and transfer it
into your position, for investment purposes on these areas:

I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:

(1) To serve as a guardian of this fund since i am an ORPHAN
(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further My
education and to secure a resident in your country.

If you can be of an assistance to me I will be grateful, please i wait for
your reply on: mrjohnsonmartins@yahoo.com

I await your soonest response.
Sincerely Yours,
Mr, Johnson Martins.

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