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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found 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.
  • clarathaneric@freesurf.fr

Fraud email example:

From: clara eric <claraeric@web.de>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:00:17 +0200
Subject: Await for the joint efforts


Dear friend,
I am clarathan Eric. Working with Finance and Securities Company in Europe.
Presently we have in our position a large sum of money which we received as a consignment , to deliver to one of our clients a filipino sailor who died in a brief illness.
I have made every effort to source the relations or any one next to him which I could not. I am in charge of deposit and have all the necessary instruments to make the claim if I have a reliable person to assist.
The funds will be confiscated if no one is coming for the claim, so if you are interested to stand as a relation to him, urgently let me know through this email address(clarathaneric@freesurf.fr [mailto:clarathaneric@freesurf.fr]) for more detail and ho w to proceed.
Regards
Clarathan Eric



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