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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:
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22997072745 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • boriscroft_1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "koromacolman2006@yahoo.com" <koromacolman2006@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:12:02 +0200
Subject: conpensation


my name is colman koroma .iam from sierra leone in west africa
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'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring the funds despited that failed us some how.
Now contact my secretary in Republic of Benin his name is Mr boris Croft through his Email is boriscroft_1@yahoo.com
ask him to send you the total of $900.000. which i raised on a bank draft cashier cheque sealed on an enveloped and kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts you deployed 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 Boris Croft and instruct him where to send the bank draft amount to you.
Please do let me know immediately as soon as you receive it, so that we can celeberate the joy after all the sufferness at that time. in the moment, I’m very busy here because of the investment projects which i and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get intouch with him Mr Boris Croft tel 00229-97072745 , he will send the amount to you without any delay.
Regards,
Colman

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