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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • fpujeh@yahoo.ca
  • missfrancesspujeh@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: FRANCESS PUJEH <fpujeh@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: missfrancesspujeh@myway.com
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:56:05 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Dearest One,


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: fpujeh@yahoo.ca

Dearest One,

Greetings to you, I know this letter will be strange to you. It


comes from a young 19 years old girl held up in a war torn


country, Ivory Coast. My father was in government in Sierra


Leone for about 3 years we had no problems untill Johny Paul


Koroma seized power. My father ran with me here and we


decided to take refuge here in Ivory Coast. Things have been


ok untill the killings and political situation here become a


problem. Now he is late and have made investments for me


here, but the situation here is so bad and the building stand to


be taken away by those supporting and not supporting the


government.

My problem is before the death of my father as he deposited


money with a bank here amounting to $7,500,000(seven


million Five hundred thousand dollars) And the only option is


for me to contact a reliable friend with a fatherly and motherly


heart to help me transfer the fund into a safe account in a


foreign country . Then i will move and continue my education


there, I promised that whosoever that help me will stay with


me since my both parents are not alive as well. My relations


have made efforts to come here and pick whatever belongs to


our family but i refused them because they will leave me


without anything for my education. Pls. help me, i compose


this letter with tears.

The Pastor whom i am staying with here has agreed to


cooperate with anybody outside here that want to help me to


stay with Him. Pls. help to get me out of here, the peace efforts


here is not working and rich families are running out. I dont


want to trust blindly to lose everything i have inherited from


my late father. Pls.reply to this private email


address:missfrancesspujeh@myway.com

Hoping to hear from you urgently.

Thank you and God bless you.

Francess Pujeh















- FRANCESS PUJEH

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