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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 "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• 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.
  • johnofili13@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mike okolo" <mikeokolo24@telegraf.by>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:54:09 +0200
Subject: FOR YOUR GOOD EFFORT!!!


Hello my good friend.

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?, You may not
understand why this mail came to you.But if you do not remember me, you
might have receive an email from me in the past regarding a
multi-million-dollar business proposal which we never concluded.



I am using this opportunity to inform you that this multi-million-dollar
business has been concluded with the assistance of another partner from
Germany who financed the transaction to a logical conclusion.



Presently i'm in Germany 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 john ofili. his Email Adderss
(johnofili13@hotmail.fr)



Ask him to send you the total $1,250,000.00 (One Million Two Fiftey Thousand
United States Dollars Bank Check 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 and instruct him to send
you the Bank check. 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
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 the secretary on your
behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Mr john
ofili he will send the amount to you without any delay.



with best regards,
Mike Okolo

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