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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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• 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.
  • benny_perex@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Jeniffer Kimberly <jenn_kimb@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:08:24 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: URGENT REPLY


FROM MY DESK,
MR ROBERT MEMSAM
DIRECTOR,
WORLD WIDE ORGANISATION.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Compliments of the season, I am ROBERT MEMSAM, The director of World Wide Organisation TASK FORCE MONITORING UNIT [T .F .M .U]

After our board meeting held in Geneva we found out that some of our E-mail Lucky Lottery Winners organised in 2006 (From Africa Zones) have not collected their Prizes due to stealing and touting activities by some despise elements calling themselves our agents, using the opportunity to divert the Lucky Winners' money into their personal accounts.

We are sorry for the incovinience this might have caused you, but at the end of the meeting we agreed to punished them for tarnishing our image. We actually stopped the action since then and now the various prizes has been put in a bank in Nigeria (Africa' Head Office) to help for the distributions of various prizes to the winners.

Congratulations, your name comes second and you are to be paid a sum of US $ 3,200,000 (Three Million Two Hunderd Thousand United States Dollars). I was mandated to handle this matter and ensure each winner gets their prizes.

Now, Send your below details to the Financial handler of the Winnings , Mr. Benny Perez via his email contact: benny_perex@yahoo.com with your Lottery Reference Number (WWW-2006-02) written above and your personal details below it. As soon as he receives your information, he will send ATM card and other account details to you to have acess to your account. Please, do let me know as soon as you have received your own prize. I need to ensure everyone collects his/her prize.

You are to include these below information;
(1) YOUR FULL NAME & YOUR AGE.
(2) YOUR DIRECT PHONE NUMBER.
(3) YOU FULL HOME ADDRESS
(4) THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE WON.

Regards

R. Memsam

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