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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:
  • "high court" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • hicent_otunzu2002@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: nikewillian@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:31:00 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONTACT=20MY=20SECRETARY=20=20FOR=20=20COMPASETION=20?=


Hello my good friend.
How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?I hope this
mail meets you in a perfect condition. You may not understand why this mail
came to you. But if you do not remember me,
you might have receive an email from me in the past regarding a multi-million-dollar
business proposal which we never concluded.I'm happy to inform you about
msuccess in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new
partner from paraguay.
Presently i'm in Paraguay 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 in Benin.
NAME / Barr HICENT OTUNZUEMAIL(hicent_otunzu2002@myway.com)
Legal practitioner & public notary & high court Representative,
Suite 205 festac plaza Akpakpa,
Benin
Ask him to send you the total of $850,000.00 (eight hundred and fifty thousand
dollars)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 Barr christ
ogodo 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 that time. in the moment, Im 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
Barr Hicent otunzu, he will send the amount to you without any delay.
Yours sincerly,
Dr.NIKE WILLIAN.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam