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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 "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.
  • peter1ageorge@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Chris Jones" <chris_jones002@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: chris_jones001@walla.com
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:09:15 +0200
Subject: Contact my Secretary

With Due Respect
I'm delighted to bring to your notice about my success
in getting those funds transferred under the
cooperation of a new partner from Indonesia. Presently
I'm in the Indonesia for investment projects with my own
share of the total sum.
Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and
attempts in transferring those funds despite that it
failed us some how.Considering that you are a
humanitarian worker assures me of your use of the funds
I am about to offer you.Now contact my secretary,his
name is Mr. Peter E-mail peter1ageorge@yahoo.es
Ask him to send you a parcel contaning $850.000.00
which I kept for your compensation for all the past
efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I
appreciated your collective effort and I believe you
willput this funds into the best use ,i.e,
humanitarian work.
Please do let me know immediately you receive it so
that we can share the joy after all the travails we
experienced at that time. In the moment, I am very busy
here in Paraguay because of the investment projects
which myself and the new partner are having at hand.
Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to
the secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so
feel free to get in touch with Mr.Peter my secretary he will send the parcel to you without
any delay.
With best regards,
Chris Jones

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