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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:
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • jeff_okohbayo@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "full offshore network in asia region" <kokoway02@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 01:57:45 +0530
Subject: GOD HAS DECLARED IT, THAT ME AND U GO HAMMER DIS YR, SO LET US THANK PAPA GOD


*Dear bros,
My name is Jeff Okoh Adebayo from Agbor in Delta State from Nigeria but base
in India I got your mail thru the formant you sent to my box so I decided to
write and tell you that am a guy man live in Asia in case if you have any
Asia job India Thailand,pakistan,nepal, malaysia,bangladish,saudi arabia,
iran, dubai, etc job let me work with you and make out money. Please I will
like to hear from you and let us know each other and make things easy.plz
reply me with this is i.d (**jeff_okohbayo@yahoo.com*<jeff_okohbayo@yahoo.com>
*)*
*Wish you good luck in all your jobs
Till I hear from you
NOTE
I HAVE PEOPLE IN LAGOS,IN BENIN CITY, AND IN OWERRI IN IMO STATE,DARKA IN
SENEGAL, PORTNOVO IN CONTONU IN BENIN REPUBLIC, HAARLEM, IN NETHERLAND,
VINNEA IN AUSTRA, MADRID IN SPAIN, THAT U CAN SEE BEFORE U GIVE ME JOBS
THANKS AND GOD BLESS

*

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