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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
  • "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2289907098 (Togo, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Ngozi Chukwu <nchukwu@ymail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 06:46:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re; Compensation !!!



Hello !!!
 
You remembered i told you that i will make it?  people loose and miss their luck due to lack of wisdom  knowledge  understanding and impatient it is me and you who supposed to get this funds  alone  but you felt that i am cheating you then,after you left every thing for me i decided to contact a new partner that can assist me financially in this transaction.
 
However I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Palm. Presently I'm in Palm
for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me on that project then despite that it failed us some how.
 
Now contact my secretary in Lome Togo his name is Mr Nkem Akubia with this email
  : ( nkemaku@feelings.com ).Phone number +228 9907098 ask him to send you the total sum of $1.500 000 00 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) 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 no matter you were impatient to conclude the transaction,so feel free and get in touched with my secretary Mr Nkem Akubia 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 i am having with my new partner, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your behalf to send the money to you, so feel free
to get in touch with  Nkem Akubia , he will send the amount to you without any delay. 
 
Best regards,
 
Mr Nkem Akubia

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