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

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Yassan Al-Fayadh." <al_fayassan@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: al_yassan@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 11:22:27 +1000
Subject: A Cry For Help





Attn/ Please

Good day to you and your lovely family. I am Mr. Yassan Ali-Fayadh, the son of Late Dhari Ali al-Fayadh
(Prominent Iraq's House of Assembly Member) who was killed along with three of his bodyguards and my
Bother in a suicide bomb attack in the neighborhood of Rashdiya Northern Baghdad. Please view the news
website below for detail Story of how I lost my Father and My Bother.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/28/iraq.main/>
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1119953467273_37/?hub=World>
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-06-28-us-offensive_x.htm?csp=34>

My late Father deposited a huge amount with Company here in Dakar Senegal. I got your contact detail
from a friend in the neighbor and have so much in trust in you. All I need from you is an assistance to transfer
the fund my late Father deposited to your country for investment until I regain my freedom. I will give you 32%
of the total sum but most of all is that I solicit your trust in this transaction and will not want you to betray me,
and I also want you to know that is a legitimate transaction and which is total risk free and we both will benefit
from it. Please all correspondence should be directed to my private email: yassanal@yahoo.fr as await your reply soon.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. Yassan Al-Fayadh.

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