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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 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.
  • aishatguie@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Aishat Guie" <aishtugie1@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: aishatguie@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:25:33 +0000
Subject: Greeting dearest.

Greeting dear,
I am contacting you believing you are a honest and trustworthy person.I
believe you will not betray the confidence I am willing to repose in
you, for me to have contacted you even though we've not met before.
My name is aishatu Guie,the only daughter of late General Robert Guie who was the chairman /President/CEO,Cacao-Cafe & Agro-Alimentary industries
plc.SCAFECAO)"Bouake" and ex-owner of Polyclinic LA-MADONNE, also a
Military Ruler of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire.

You can find the story on this
website:http://(news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2269238.stm)

you can contact us through our
alternate email adress for
Emails aishatguie@yahoo.com
i am waiting for your response.
Thanks and God bless. you
Aishatu Guie.

Anti-fraud resources:

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