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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:

• 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.
  • pastorbenmensah@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: Julliet Richardson Family <j.richardsonfamily@yahoo.ca>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:34:10 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Good News Amarjit Singh.


Good Day Amarjit,
We are so 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 passed efforts and attempts to assist us in transferring our funds despite that you failed us some how. Now contact our former pastor in Accra Ghana and his name is Pastor Benjamin S.T Mensah and his email addres is: pastorbenmensah@hotmail.com ask him to send you the total sum of $75,000.00 which i kept for your compensation for all your passed efforts and attempts to assist us in our transaction of our fund earlier on. We appreciated your efforts at that time very much and God bless you for all you done for us. So feel free and get in touch with him and we have instruct him to ensure that the amount is released to you. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferring
at that time and moment with us, We are very busy here because of the investment projects which we and the new partner are having at hand. Finally, remember that we had forwarded instruction to the him on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Pastor Benjamin S.T Mensah he will send the amount to you without any delay.
Yours Faithfully,
Juliet Beta Richardson Family.
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