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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.
  • +447024026023 (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.
  • cynthia_osigwe1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: charles uba <charles_uba13@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:17:04 +0100 (BST)
Subject: SUCCESS AT LAST


Dear Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting
the fund 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. Meanwhile, I did not
forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in
transferring those funds despite that it failed us
some how.

Now contact my secretary, her contact is:

Name: Miss. Cynthia Chidiebere Osigwe

Email: cynthia_osigwe1@yahoo.co.uk



Ask her to send you the total $450.000.00 (Four
Hundred and Fifty Thousand US 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 Miss. Cynthia osigwe
Osigwe and instruct her 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 suffernes at
that time. 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 Miss. Cynthia Grace
Osigwe and she will send the amount to you without
any delay.

With best regards

CHARLES UBA

+447024026023



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