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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.
• 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.
  • jamesokocha23@yahoo.com.ar (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?james=20okocha?= <jamesokocha23@yahoo.com.ar>
Reply-To: jamesokocha2@yahoo.com.uk
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:31:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Mr.James Okocha. I write you this mail which i pray should be urgently replied.I am Mr.James Okocha, a staff of an international Bank, lagos. I am writing following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $38 Million usd,(united state dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who is late now .He is an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of YEAR 2000, Since we go


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo electrónico!Ahora podés escribirme a: jamesokocha23@yahoo.com.ar





- james okocha

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