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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • nenadonald1@myself.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "nena donald" <nenafamily@centrum.cz>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:53:23 +0200
Subject: hi


Hello Dear,
 
please allow me to introduce myself to you, i am Miss Nena Donald the only daughter of my parents , my father and mother are dead, they died as a result of war in my country sierra leone, in west africa. as a matter of fact, my father was a director of sierra leonean oil mining INC., before my father was killed, he told me that he deposited the sum of $10.000.000 (ten mllion usd ) in a private bank here in Abidjan IVORY COAST .
he said that he deposited the money to be an inheritance for me in case of emergeny or death, which he handed over to me all informations that i need to know regarding the deposit fund which is in the bank for now, Now i have succeded in locating the bank in Abidjan Ivory Coast and the international remittance director told me that i do not have an access to the fund because of how it was deposited and the only way i could access my late father's account is by providing to them my forieng partners adress and contact informations  so they can contact him/her for the immediate transfer of this fund to his/her account abroad, after they might have finish doing some legal procedures for my inheritance fund transfer .My Dear this has been a problem to me because i don't know any one abroad, i have even been under going through sufferings because i lost my parents, now i am contacting you to stand for me as my forieng partner to enable the bank  transfers this money into your account , so i can join u over there to finish my education, while you  help me invest the money over there in your country, i am willing to offer you the 15% of the total money for your help, please help me it is easy and legal to do this with me, i promise to give you any information you might need.
waiting to hear from you
yours Nena
 reply to  :   nenadonald1@myself.com

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