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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.
  • sylsom_morgan03@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "henrixadams01@terra.es" <henrixadams01@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:09:15 +0100 (MET)
Subject: HELLO MY GOOD FRIEND,



HELLO MY GOOD FRIEND,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting
those funds($30.5million) transffered under the
co-operation of a new partner from Japan.Presently i'm
in Japan 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 transffering those funds
despite that it failed us somehow. Now contact my
secretary in REPUBLIC OF BENIN ask him to send to you
the sumof $1.5millon which i kept for your compensation
for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in
the matter.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much.so
feel free and get in touched with my secretary,instruct
him where to send the money to you. Please do let me
know immediately you receive it so that we can share
the joy after all the sufferness at that time,At 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 those money,so feel
free to get in touch with him to send the amount to you
without any delay.

Name of my secretary===== Mr.SYLSOM MORGAN
Email===================sylsom_morgan03@yahoo.it

Best regards
Dr.HENRIX ADAMS.








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