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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.
  • rogerpeter@centrum.sk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • maria.hope00@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: rogerpeter@centrum.sk (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:20:54 -0500
Subject: 11send.com file delivery: Contact Ms Hope ASAP.jpg


Hello!

A person from email address <rogerpeter@centrum.sk> has just sent you a file named "Contact Ms Hope ASAP.jpg".

Message from sender:
To:My Good Friend

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds
transfered under the cooperation of a new partner from Taiwan.Presently
I'm in Taiwan for investment projects with my own share of the total
Contract sum. mean while,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts
to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some
how.Now contact my secretary in Accra-Ghana as i stated below:

Name Ms Maria Hope
email: maria.hope00@yahoo.it

Ask her to send you the check what of $950.000 ( Nine Hundred And Fifty
Thousand United States Dollar Only) which i kept for your compensation
for all your 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 Ms.Lisa Kwesi urgent and pleaded by advice
her where to send the Draft to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share
the joy together after all our sufferings at that time you are trying
to help me out move the funds out of my country. At this moment I'm
very busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new
partner are having at hand, finally,remember that i had forwarded
instruction to my secretary on your behalf to receive the DRAFT,so feel
free to get in touch with Ms.Maria Hope who in position to send the
Draft to you after dueprocess with the bank and try to be honest with
her because she is a very good service Lady.

Best Regards

Roger Peter.

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