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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)
  • "activation fee" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
• 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.
  • atmpayment_departmentbenin74@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: peter okoye <peterokoye6@hotmail.fr>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:52:53 +0200
Subject: CONTACT ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT



My dear friend,

This is to inform you about my success in getting the money moved under the co-operation of a new partner from New Jersy.

Presently i'm in New Jersy for investing my own part of the total money .Meanwhile,ididn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in moving the cash despite that both of us could not make it.

Now contact ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT and their email address is (atmpayment_departmentbenin74@yahoo.fr ) askthem to send you the sum of one million three hundred thousand dollars ( 850,00 usd) in an ATM MASTER CARD 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 theATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT and instruct them on where to send your total share of the money to you.Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy together after all the sufferness at that time.

In the moment, i am very busy here investing with my new partner .
Remember that you are going to pay a reactivation fee of $95.00 only and it is for thereactivation of your card against it's expiry.

Finally, I have forwarded instruction to the DEPARTMENT to send the Confirmable ATM MASTER CARD to you, so feel free to get in touch with the FINANCIAL BANK and they will send the CARD to you without any delay. DO FAST AND CONTACT HEM IMMEDIETLY OK?Best Regards,BARR. Peter Okoye,
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