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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • 233273661451
• 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.
  • luis_apostel@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "RICHARD MICHIE" <xxmichie8@ig.com.br>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:35:05 -1200
Subject: Contact My Secretary God Have Done It!


FROM:: RICHARD MICHIE.

My Good Friend,

I'm happy to
inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the
cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay. Presently I am in Paraguay for
investment projects with my own share of the total sum.
Mean while, 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 in Accra Ghana
as i stated below follow his
instructions:

NAME:: APOSTLE LUIS YOCCA
Email:: luis_apostel@yahoo.com
Telephone number:: 233-273-661-451

Ask
him to send you the check what of $1,700.000.00( ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS which I kept for your
compensation for all your

past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter and i have appreciated


your past

efforts at that time very much.So feel free and get in touched with
my
secretary APOSTLE LUIS YOCCA and instruct him where to send the check to you.
Send him the following information so that he will be sure that you
are the
owner of the cheque:

1) Your full name, address::
2) Cells,
fax::
3)
Company name, position::
4) Professions, age and marital
status::

I have forwarded instruction to my Secretary and he will
be waiting for your mail with information on this.
Please do not bother to
contact me because i will be out of reach for about a year.
So feel free to get
in touch with APOSTLE LUIS YOCCA to send the check to you without any further
delay and try to be honest with him because he is God faring man.

With
best regards,

[image: Richard Michie's Signature]


Mr. Richard


Michie.
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