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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:

• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "joseph richard2" <josephrichard2@klikni.cz>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 12:03:04 +0200
Subject: Longest time my good friend


Longest time my good friend
I am happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds
transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Japan,Presently i'm
in Osaka for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.
meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in
transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary his name is

MR.PETER HENRY

on her E-mail Address ( peter_henry7@live.fr )
ask her to send you the total of $1.500 000.00
(one million five hundred thousand 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 MR.PETER HENRY. 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
sufferness at that time. in the moment,

I'm very busy here because of the investment projects which i and the new
partner Morris are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded
instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that money,so feel
free to get in touch with MR.PETER HENRY. he will send the amount to you
without any delay.

Regards,
Dr.Joseph Richard,

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