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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:
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• 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.
  • secretaryjosiane@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Andrea Andre" <andreprivate38@livedoor.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:59:49 +0100
Subject: Dear good Friend,


Dear good Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transfered
under the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay.

Presently I'm in South Korea 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 somehow.
Now contact my secretary Miss Josiane Akapko with her email address (
secretaryjosiane@hotmail.fr ) ask her to send you the total sum of $800.000
thousand US dollars which I kept for your compensation for all your 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 touch with my
secretary Sec. Josiane Akapko and instruct him where to send the amount to
you.

You have to contact my secretary Josiane Akapko through this email address
( secretaryjosiane@hotmail.fr ) with the following information so as to
enable her to go and register your bank draft with a courier company
immediately to your designated house address.

First name:
Last Name:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
address:

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the
joy after all the sufferings at this time, in the moment, I'm 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 those money, so feel free to get in
touch with her to send the amount to you without any delay with this
information again

With best regards,

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