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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:
  • "j'ai une nouvelle adresse mail" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • wetosam2@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • collinsaneke50@yahoo.ca

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?SAMUEL=20SOWETO?= <wetosam2@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: samuelsoweto@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:10:29 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: dear friend,


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : wetosam2@yahoo.fr

dear friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund transferred under the co-operation of a new partner from Japan. Presently i'm in Japan 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 transffering the fund even though it failed afterall. Now contact my secretary in Cotonou Benin Republic. His name is Mr. COLLINS ANEKE ,private email(collinsaneke50@yahoo.ca) Ask him to send you a bank draft valued $800,000.00 which i raised in your favour as 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 touched with my secretary Mr. COLLINS ANEKE and instruct him on where to send the Draft to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness. In the moment, i'm very busy here because of the investment projects I have here with my new partner. I had already instructed my secretary regarding the despatch of the Draft to your contact address. Therefore,feel free to contact him now so he can send your money to you without any delay.

My regards to you and your family,

SAMUEL SOWETO.

- SAMUEL SOWETO

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