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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • john_dyfig001@web2mail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jim williams <williams_uk009@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <john_dyfig001@web2mail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:04:42 +0800
Subject: YOUR COMPENSATION



YOUR COMPENSATION

I'm happy to inform you about mysuccess in getting the fund transferred to a Swiss Account withthe cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay who is an internationalbusinessman. Presently I'm in London United Kingdom for investmentprojects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I did notforget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferringthose funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secrtary, his contact is:Name: Mr.John DyfigEmail: john_dyfig001@web2mail.com

Ask him to send you the International Bank Draft of total sum of$850.000.00 (Eigth Hundred and Fifty Thousand US Dollars) which I keptfor your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assistme in this matter.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touch with my secretary, Mr.John Dyfig andinstruct him where to send the amount to you. Please do let me knowimmediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all thesufferness at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here becauseof the investment projects which me and my new partner are having athand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to mysecretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get intouch with Mr. John Dyfig and he will send the amount to you withoutany delay.

Best regards,

Mr.Jim Rabiu.
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