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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.
  • kodjo_willi1960@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: Holman Eric <holmarte@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:20:24 -0800 (PST)
Subject: COMPASATION GIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Dear Friend,
Compliments,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Europe. Presently I'm in Europe with my client for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.

Be that as it may, i never forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how and I am sorry for what happened.
Now contact my PERSONAL ASSISTANCE in Republic du benin his name is Mr KODJO WILLIAMS, his email acount is (kodjo_willi1960@yahoo.com) ask him to send your check, total sum of (Eight hundred thousand United State Dollars)$800usd which I instructed my personal assistant to 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. So feel free and get in touch with my personal assistance and direct him where to send the check to you.
Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferings at the same
time.
At present, I’m very busy here because of the investment projects which my new partner and i are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the my Personal assistant on your behalf to receive the check,
so feel free to get in touch with him, he will send the check to you without any delay.

Sincerely yours,
Eric Holman.



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