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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • johnokoma4@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "lowanitzel@terra.es" <lowanitzel@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:39:07 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: FOR YOUR GOOD EFFORT!!!



Hello my good friend.

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?, You may not understand why this mail came to you. i am Barrister Lowa Nitzel who contacted you long ago regarding a multi-million-dollar business proposal which we never concluded.

I am using this opportunity to inform you that this multi-million-dollar business has been concluded with the assistance of another partner from Germany who financed the transaction to a logical conclusion.

Presently i'm in Germany 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 those funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary,his name is Mr John Okoma. his Email Adderss (johnokoma4@yahoo.fr)


ask him to send you the total $1,250,000.00 (One Million Two Fiftey Thousand United States Dollars Bank Check 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 and instruct him to send you the Bank check. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. in the moment,i am 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 the secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Mr John Okoma. he will send the amount to you without any delay.

With Best Regards,
Barrister Lowa Nitzel





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