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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • rapulukemy22@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "COLLINS EZEH" <collinseze2000@msn.com>
Reply-To: rapulukemy@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:37:15 +0000
Subject: YOUR COMPENSATION

Dear sassy,

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 don't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in
transferring those funds out of my Country (Benin Republic) though it did
not work as planned on your side,I appreciate that concern and the effort
greatly and as a christian whose believe is that one good turn deserves
another.And a man of high esteem and intergrity I deemed it necessary to
reward you with this little compensation of mine and i wish you accept it in
good faith.
Now contact my secretary in Benin his name is Rapulu Kemy ,ask him to send
you the total of $800,000.00 (eight hundred thousand US dollars)
which I kept to be used in compensating you 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 my secretary him for i
have instructucted him to release it for you.kindly instruct him where to
send it to you.
Please do let me know immediately you receive it from my secretary. At the
moment, I’m very busy here because of the investment projects which I and my
new partner are having at hand now which as I see it may take up to
4months.Notwithstanding , I will contact you as soon as I am thruogh with
what i have at hand now.Once more thank you very much.
Regards
Barrister collins PLEASE DO CONTACT MY SECRETARY HERE . EMAIL
rapulukemy22@yahoo.com



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