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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:

• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • stvsonmapo@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: "steven mapola" <stevemap_ola@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: stvsonmapo@netscape.net
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:06:41 +0200
Subject: i need your help.

Good Day Sir/Madam,
It is my pleasure reaching you through this means, I
am in need of a trust
worthy foreign person that can assist me have my
fund(s) worth 8.5Million
English Pounds Stirling transferred out of the non
operational bank account
that my late Uncle, Chief. David J Moffat deposited
in ireland, for it is
very difficult for me to received such fund for I am
the next of kin and due
to I being a refugee here, I urgently need your help
in this case. Please if
you are willing to assist me, do send me your
contact
telephone numbers and your full names
so that I can present you to the bankers
at ireland where the
fund is deposited, for the bankers in ireland to
contact you, as you will be my
foreign family partner that I need my fund(s) to be
transferred to your account. If you do care to help,
my mail box : stvsonmapo@netscape.net
Yours faithfully,
Dick Robert Moffat.

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