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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)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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.
  • +31616735656 (Netherlands, 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.
  • drucheokoh@yahoo.com.cn
  • mailmartinskuye@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: YOKUS OIL <yokusoil14@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:49:48 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Thanks for your past efforts.


From The Desk of Dr. Yokus Oyale.
Former Deputy Governor
Central Bank of Nigeria Gargi-Abuja
mail: drucheokoh@yahoo.com.cn

ATTN: My Good Friend,

Happy New Year! I‘m very happy to inform you about my success in
getting the fund transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from
Paraguay.

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 transferring the fund despite that it failed us somehow.

Now contact my secretary who is now in The-Netherlands, with the
following information:-

NAME: Mr. Martins Kuye
-MAIL: mailmartinskuye@yahoo.de
TEL: + 31-616 735 656.

Ask him to send you the total $800,000,00 Dollars which I kept for your
compensation for all your past efforts and attempt to assist me in this
matter.

I appreciated your efforts at that time, so feel free and get intouched
with my secretary Mr. Martins Kuye and instruct 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 sufferness at this time, in the moment, I‘m very
busy here because of the investment projects which I and my new partner
are having at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary on
your behalf to receive the money, so feel free to get intouch with Mr.
Martins Kuye ask him to send you the money without any delay.

Yours Faithfully
Dr.Yokus Oyale.

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