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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.
  • johnmike2004@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "johnson1" <johnson002@centrum.sk>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:56:14 +0200
Subject: My Dear Good Friend,


My Dear Good Friend,
I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those fundstransferred under the cooperation of a new partne from paraguay.Presently i'm in Paraguay for investmentprojects with my own share of thetotal sum. meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts toassist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how,now contact my secretary in Benin his name is john mike on( johnmike2004@hotmail.fr ) ask him to send you the total of $1.5MUSD whichi 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 itouched with my secretary john mike and instruct him where to send thamount to you.
Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that wecan share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. in the moment,I amvery busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I hadforwarded instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with john mike  , he will send the amount to you without any delay.
NOTE :BELWO HERE IS THE REQUIRED INFORMATIONS YOU WILL SEND TO MY
SECRETARY
(1) YOUR FULL NAMES
(2) YOUR HOUSE ADDRESS
(3) YOUR DIRECT CELPHONE NUMBER AND HOUSE PHONE WITH FAX IF ANY .
(4) YOUR ID EITHER INTERNATIONAL PAS-PORT OR DRIVING LINCES .
Regards,
M johnson

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