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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.
  • augustine.ego@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3aaugustine.ego@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "General Sir Richard Dannatt" <info_dannatt9@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: richard.dannatt@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 13:01:11 +0100
Subject: BENEFICIARY


TO: BENEFICIARY,


I am General Sir Richard Dannatt a British Army Commander and we are the
financial investigation unit with the office of the United Nations,EFCC,CIA
and FBI. We picked up the file of Mrs.Caro Mark a foreigner of your
country,who was the managing director of Oil Development Company plc in
Nigeria.


She died along with her husband and there three children in Niger Delta
Crisis.And I have been given the mandate to contact you as the next of kin
by the Secretary General of the United Nations and we have concluded your
payment through the Zenith Bank Plc and I want you to contact Rev.Father
Augustine Ego right away through the below information and you are also
asked to stop any further communication with whosoever including your
partner because we are undergoing an investigation and if anybody is found
guilty or having hands in extorting money from you we will arrest him and
hand him over to the Funds Investigation Unit. Contacts the Financial
Secretary to the Presidency in Nigeria:


Rev.Father Augustine Ego to enable him start the process of releasing your
payment amount of $18.5m from the bank.Do as direct to receive your
payment:- Rev.Father's
Email:augustine.ego@gmail.com<Email%3Aaugustine.ego@gmail.com>


GENERAL SIR RICHARD DANNATT.
BRITISH ARMY COMMANDER:

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