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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
  • "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "vincent banker" <nasovincent2@norilsk.biz>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:49:23 +0100
Subject: Re; Compensation


Hello !!!

You remembered i told you that i will make it? people loose and miss their
luck due to lack of wisdom knowledge understanding and impatient it is me
and you who supposed to get this funds alone but you felt that i am
cheating you then,after you left every thing for me i decided to contact a
new partner that can assist me financially in this transaction.

However 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'm in Paraguay
for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. meanwhile,i
didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me on that project
then despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary in Lome Togo his name is John David with this
email
:john1david12@yahoo.in and phone number 00228 986 88 25 ask him to send
you the total of $1.500 000 00 (one million five hundred thousand us
dollars) 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 no matter you were impatient
to conclude the transaction,so feel free and get in touched with my
secretary John David and instruct him where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the
joy after all the sufferings at that 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 that money, so feel free
to get in touch with John David , he will send the amount to you without
any delay.

Regards

Mr Naso Vincent.

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