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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.
• 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.
  • eanhasse1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Elizabeth Alamara Nhasse" <eanhasse@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:44:55 +0000
Subject: Hi

Good day,
I know it looks really strange for you to receive this
email from me mostly due to the facts that this medium
(INTERNET) has been greatly abused . However strange
or surprising this contact might seem to you, as we
have not met personally or had any formal dealings in
the past.

My names are Miss Elizabeth Alamara Nhasse, from
Guinea-Bissau. The daughter of the former Prime
Minister by name (Alamara Nhasse) before the
Government was toppled On November 14, 2002.

I have some amount of money which I inherited from my
father. The amount is ($7.5 Seven Million, Five
Hundred United States Dollars}.

I will want you to assist me in investing part of this
money in your country with an honest and reputable
person in any viable and lucrative business you deem
fit.

Please, do contact me directly via
(eanhasse1@yahoo.com).

Looking forward to your positive response.
Best Regards,
Miss Elizabeth Alamara Nhasse.

Anti-fraud resources:

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