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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • rev_jamespeter_nnpc@myway.com
  • revjamespeter_nnpc@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "gaius obaseki" <gaiusobaseki008@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: revjamespeter@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:29:41 +0100
Subject: Sincerely,

 

 
FROM THE DESK OF:ENGR.  GAIUS  OBASEKI  (MNI,  MFR)

My Dear: Friend,

This  is   ENGIR.  GAIUS  OBASEKI, I’m optimistic to inform you about my success in getting the fund Transferred with   the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay. Presently I’m in Paraguay for a multi purpose 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 these fund despite that it failed us some how. Now contact my personal secretary, his name is   REV.  JAMES   PETER  on his E-mail address:    rev_jamespeter_nnpc@myway.com   OR   revjamespeter_nnpc@hotmail.com     ask him to send you the total sum of USD$6,5000.000.00(Six Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars only) which was made in certified bank Draft in your name.    This is  your   compensation for the efforts and attempts you made to assist me initially.

I appreciated  your efforts very much, So feel free and contact my secretary   and instruct him where to send the (USD$6,5000.000.00) for  you.

Confirm the  below information to him:
[1] Your full names.
[2] Your Receiving  address where the draft will be delivered.
[3] Your mobile telephone number.

Nevertheless, please re- confirm to me immediately you receive the draft so that we can share the joy after all our suffering. At the moment, I am very busy here with the investment projects, which my  new partner and I are having at hand.

  Feel free to get in touch with my secretary  and he will send the draft to you  as I instructed   .

Looking anxiously to hearing   from you soonest.
Sincerely,

Engr. Gaius  Obaseki  (MNI,MFR)

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