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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.
  • masupha_jr10@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "emassole@terra.es" <emassole@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:32:46 +0100 (MET)
Subject: FOR YOUR INFORMATION



Hello My Dear,

Greetings to you in the name of our lord jesus christ,I am Mrs. A. Masupha
Ephraim Sole wife of Masupha Ephraim Sole, the Ex Chief Executive of the
Lesotho Highland Authority, presently based in country Lesotho.

Following his conviction at the high court of Lesotho on charges of corrupt
enrichment, he asked me to write a letter to see if I could get someone to
asist me in getting out of my present condition. Due to the current
predicament which my husband finds himself, which he feels was meted
out to him unjustly, he has directed the entire family convert to seek a way
to secure and invest the funds which he had been saving all the while he
was in service.

The amount totals ($25M) Twenty Five million dollars. If you are willing to help us
out,Please for further information do reply through my Son private email
box: masupha_jr10@yahoo.com.hk .Since Sole is the first Son of my
Husband he will be dealing with you in regard to this transaction. Please
Reply through his email Box so that he can be able to furnish all the details
information in confidential.I can put you in the larger picture.

Thank you as I await your response. You could visit the following web
pages (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1998939.stm: to have an idea
of how my husband was treated as a pariah while others were left off the
hook.

Regards.

Mrs Ephraim Masupha
(Fot the family)





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