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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +2348038578707 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "roseline obaseki" <roselineobasekiestate@msn.com>
Reply-To: xxobaseki@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:37:15 +0000
Subject: FROM DR MRS ROSELINE OBASEKI......

 

Dear Friend,

I want you to assist me and my partner to receive a park age which we
are working on how to move it out of our country down to your
country,and we promise to give you 30% of the park age.

 

We only need:
(1) Your full name  (2) Your address (3) Mobile Telephone number
(4) Your international passport number or Photograph for us to make
the deposit with your name.

 

The flight that will be living with the park age will be living this
weekend that is why we need your assistance for us to make sure the
park age live immediately.

 

The content of the park age is $15 million  U.S dollars our company
Sell Bloc, Crude Oil  want to send this money to our customers in
Europe through a security company  and it was declare and Target personal
effect.

 

We want to divert the money to you so that we all will share it,So
we want you to send us the needed in formations for us to deposit the
money with your name to the security company that will be living with the
park age.

 

Please we are sorry if we have offended you for the assistance,but
we believe the business will change our life.

 

I wait your reply with the in formations so that we will deposit it with
your name as the right full beneficiary and after that we give you the:

Goods Number, Code, The Tracking Number.Please you can call me with
this number : +234-80-3857-8707  for more information.

 

Hoping  to hear from you.

 

Thanks and God bless us,

 

DR.ROSELINE OBASEKI.

 

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