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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +2348077280639 (Nigeria, 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.
  • ro.miscannons@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Fiduciary Agent" <drbrown23@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:27:04 +0000
Subject: GOOD NEWS CONTACT MY SECRETARY IMMEDIATELY

Dear Friend,

I am happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred
under the cooperation of a new partner from
Paraguay. Presently I am in Paraguay for investment projects with my own
share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I did not forget
your past efforts and attempts you made in getting your winnings sent to
your delivery address, despite that it failed us
somehow.

Now contact my secretary in Lagos his name is (Mr Robert Miscannon)

Find below his contact information.

Name: Mr Robert Miscannon
E-mail: ro.miscannons@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone: +234-8077280639

Ask him to send you the total $150,000.00 (ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US
DOLLARS) certified bank Check, which I raised in

your favor for your compensation for all the past efforts you have made in
receiving your winnings in this matter. I

appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in
touched with my secretary and give him your address

where to send the check to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive the Check to enable us share
the joy after all the sufferness at that time. In
the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects,which the
new partner and me are having at hand, finally,
remember that I have forwarded instruction to the secretary on your behalf
to receive that money. So feel free to get in

touch with him (Mr Robert Miscannon) without any delay.

Best regards,
Dr Thomas Brown
Fiduciary Agent

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