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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:

• 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.
  • ange_sankoh01@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: ange sankoh <ange_sankoh01@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:15:12 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: The response From Miss Ange Sankoh


Dear Madras,
Thank you for your mail of response.I am sorry for the late response,I was so sick and spend the rest of my past time at the hospital for medical treatment.Now that I am back,I am here to ensure to you that this is not a scam in any way.I have the proofs of the documents which I will send to you later.But before I send to you my personal photos and address,documents and the contact of the security company where my late father deposited the consignment I would like you to send me your telephone and fax number which I will submitt to the security company and introduce you to them as my late father's foreign business partner and the beneficiary of the consignment deposited at their custody.Please repond to me through my private email at (ange_sankoh01@yahoo.com)
Thanks,
Yours sincerely
miss Ange Sankoh.


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