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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found 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.
  • +22993743178 (Benin, probably a 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.
  • secretarypumexobodo2007@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Saminu Turaki <saminuturaki@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <secretarypumexobodo2007@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:59:06 +0100
Subject: CONTACT MY SECRETARY IN BENIN REPUBLIC.




Dear Friend,
Greetings, I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the co-operation of a new partner from Monaco.
Presently i'm in Monaco 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 confidential secretary, his name is Mr.Pumex Obodo. E-mail: (secretarypumexobodo2007@yahoo.fr) Telephone +229 93 74 31 78. Ask him to send you the total sum of $800.000.00 which i kept for your compensation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this transaction. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touch with my secretary Mr.Pumex Obodo, together with your full contact information were he will send the Bank Draft and give him instruction on where to send the money to you. And please do let me know immediately you receive the money so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. I’m very busy at this moment 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 that Bank Draft, so get in touch with Mr.Pumex Obodo, he will send the bank draft to you without any delay.
Yours Faithfully
Dr.Goodluck Paul
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