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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.
  • helline_arida001@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Helline Arida." <helline_arida1980@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: helline_arida001@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:37:43 +0200
Subject: From Miss Helline Arida.


Hello Dear,

How are you today?

My name is Helline 21years old girl the daughter of late Dr.Agustine Arida, he was international business man, he deal on timber business when he was alive.

Though we dont know each other before, but i believe that relationship and comunication with someone you never know before start's a day.

There is this amount of seven million US dollar($7,000,000,00) which my late father deposited in one of the Security Company here in Abidjan before he, my mother and my only sister died on moter accident here in Ivory Coast West Africa.

Now as the only person left in the family i decided to contact you to HELP me retrieve this money from the Security Company so we can invest it in any profitable investmentment in your country.

If you can be of a great HELP to me i will be please to offer you 10% of the total money after the money has been trasferred to you in your country and you will arrang for my coming to meet you in your country to further my education.

Please do reply direct to(helline_arida001@yahoo.fr) so that i will give you more details and information .

Thanks and God bless you.

Miss Helline Arida.

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