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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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• 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.
  • patienees2005@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Pat Solomon" <patienees2005@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:11:41 +0200
Subject: Hi

We are a family that need help from you, we are from Zimbabwe the south of Africa and we are farmers but we are having a very big problems with the President Mr. Robert Mugabe because my husband said that what he is doing to the white farmers is bad by sizing there farmlands
and there personal belonging and also sending his mobs and aids to destroy there property. My husband was killed by his aids and they confisticated all our property so me and my two children had to ran to Chad a small country were we did not know anybody for safety were we
are now seeking asylum, but the help we need from you is to help us claim the sum of nineteen million dollars (19,000,000.00 dollars) that my husband left or deposited in a finance house before his untimely death. We cannot go and make the claim and if we try the President have
people all over that will know and they will seize the funds, so I , Mrs. Shima is writing to you in person after I saw your banking experience and as a big brother nation to help us and claim this fund you can stand as a partner to my late husband and send to the finance house an
application for claim or retransfer of the funds to your account and you will have 30% of the total amount and if you like invest our share in your country but it's very important you help us to come over to your great country. Please forward all response to my email:
patienees2005@yahoo.com Thank you and God bless us all. Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Pat Solomon

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