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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.
  • icorg2006@consultant.com

Fraud email example:

From: "HI" <linda_john202006@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:56:55 +0200
Subject: Hello



INVITAITON TO THE YASPSC AND ICOCL CONFERENCE 2006.
Hello friend,
It is my pleasure to convey to you on behalf of YSAPSC general secretariat members, my warmest greetings and compliments. In accordance with the humanitarian principles which we believe, especially with what the United Nations and the International Summit on child held in New York on September 1990. Bearing in mind that the need to extend particular care to the child has been stated in the Geneva Declaration of the Rights Of The Child OF 1924 and in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child adopted by the General Assembly on 20 November 1959. I hereby invite your organization to participate in the fort coming combined conferences on YOUTH ,CHILDS PROEVENTION STERTEGING AND CHILDS LABOUR AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT holding first in the U.S at Global Youths welfare convention Hall, 3074 St Lucie Orlando Florida State U.S.A. Fax. (+1-717-313-3161) on the 20th to 23rd July 2006,and later in Senegal (West-Africa) on the 26th to 30th July 2006 respect!
ively. Please contact the secretary to the organizers through this address (icorg2006@consultant.com <mailto:icorg2006@consultant.com>) for further information's regarding the conference and do inform the secretary that i recommended you as this conference was not advertised .so that you and i can stay there in africa for some days before you and i can go back to my country .U.S.A if you wish to go with me,
Yours faithfully,
Miss linda, U.S.A

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