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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.
  • kalumod@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Ubah Dinma <ubahtdinma22@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 13:35:22 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Your compensation from Senator. Ubah Dinma.


I am Ubah Dinma from Nigeria I contacted you for a transaction of transferring money into your account into your country
so I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund transferred to a Swiss Account with the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay who is an international business man.
Presently I'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.
Now contact my secretary, his contact is:
Name: Mr. Desmond Kalu

Email: kalumod@yahoo.co.uk
Ask him to send you the total $450.000.00 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand US Dollars) which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts 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 Mr. Desmond Kalu and tell him where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the suffer ness at that time. In the moment, I am 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 in touch with Mr. Desmond Kalu and he will send the amount to you without any delay do send your telephone number to him to enable him talk to you on phone as soon as he send the draft to you.
With best regards

Senator. Ubah Dinma


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