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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:

• 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.
  • r_isoh00@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "MIKE DIKE" <m_dike00@msn.com>
Reply-To: mikedike55@eriga.lv
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:07:45 +0000
Subject: Compensation

FROM: Mr. Mike Dike

Compliments,

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 am in South Korea for investment projects with my own share of
the total sum. Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to
assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us somehow. Now
contact my secretary in Nigeria his name is RANDY ISOH with his email
address is: r_isoh00@myway.com ask him to send you the total $3.5 million
U.S dollars which I kept for your compensation for all your 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
touched with my secretary RANDY ISOH 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 sufferness at this time, in the moment, I’m very busy here
because of the investment projects which me and the new partners are having
at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary
on your behalf to receive those money, so feel free to get in touch with
RANDY ISOH to send the amount to you without any delay.

With best regards,

Mr. Mike Dike

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