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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 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.
  • +447024013029 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • anayo_anusiem@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ch_uba@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:33:18 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Trusha=20Akhilaam?=

Dear Trusha Akhilaam ,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the funds transferred
to a Swiss Account with the cooperation of a new partner from paraguay who
is an international business man.Presently I'm in London for investment
projects with my own share of the total sum. Now contact my secretary, his
contact is:

Name: Mr Anayo Anusiem
Email: anayo_anusiem@yahoo.co.uk

Ask him to send you the total $450.000.00 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand
US Dollars) which I kept for your compensation .I appreciated your efforts
at that time very much,only that you did not conclude the transaction. So
feel free and get in touched with my secretary Mr Anayo Anusiem and instruct
him where to send the draf to you. Please do let me know immediately you
receive it. 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 my secretary on your behalf to receive
that money, so feel free to get in touch with Mr Anayo Anusiem and he will
send the Draft to you without any delay.
With best regards.

Dr.Charles Uba.
+447024013029

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