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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:
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • elanoye@zipmail.com.br (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mgtboard@canada.com
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 03:48:25 -0800
Subject: REPLY SOON

RE:ATTENTION PLEASE
Dr Ela Noye
Federal Ministry of Health
Public Hospitals management Board
P.o.Box 35467. Garki, Abuja.

Compliments of the season to you and your entire family. I
know that
this e-mail message will come to you as a surprise because
we have never meet before now. However i choose to reach you
via e-mail because it remains the fastest and more secured
way for communication.

My name is Dr Ela Noye contract coordinator for the building
and maintenance of all Public Hospitals in all the 36 states
of the
federation and the federal capital territory with the
federal ministry of Health and the hospital management
board.

The federal ministry of health and the hospital management
board
awarded this contract in the year 2004 for building and
maintenance of all government public hospitals in the
federation.
This contract have been fully executed and commissioned and
full
payments made to the contractors.

We were able to over invoiced the contract sum to the tone
of
US$4.5million,this $4.5m is what we want to transfer abroad
with the co-operation of a reliable and a confident partner.

We the contract committee members have agreed that your
share of the
total amount $4.5m ,you will take $.5million as your share
while
us$4million will be shared amoung we the committee members.
I know that this proposal will look too good to be truth
based on the scam parading worldwide but you just have to
accept it in good faith and the modalities to transfer the
fund $4.5m have been perfected awaiting any account of your
choice.

If you find this proposal interesting, Please do not delay
to reply me as a matter of urgency with your phone number so
that i can call you for a more detailed discussion with you
if you find it interesting and you wish to co-operate with
us.
PLEASE REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL:elanoye@zipmail.com.br
Yours truly.
Dr Ela Noye



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