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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.
  • odera.1kra@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Odera Kra" <odera.2kra@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:47:28 +0000
Subject: Dearest,

Dearest,
I am Miss. Odera Kra ,daughter of Late David Kra (Prominent Iraqis House of Assembly Member ) who was killed along with three of his bodyguards and my brother in a suicide bomb attack in neighborhood of Rashdiya Northern Baghdad,while my mother died of heart attack two week after my fathers death . View the Website below for detail Story of how I lost my influential parents. <http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/28/iraq.main/>
My late and beloved father deposited a huge amount($11.500.000.00)eleven million, five hundred thousand US dollars in bank Abidjan ivory coast precisely .All I need from you is an assistance to transfer the fund to your country for investment and i will come over to join you in your country after the transfer is done. I will give you 15% of the total sum (sharing ration is Negotiable} but most of all is that I solicit your trust in this transaction and will not want you to betray me. All correspondence should be directed to my private Email address below: Email: odera.1kra@yahoo.co.in <mailto:odera.1kra@yahoo.co.in>
Yours sincerely,
Miss.Odera Kra

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