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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.
  • miss_sarah_williams@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Sarah Williams" <ms_sarah_boko1@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: miss_sarah_williams@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:56:22 +0200
Subject: Hi Dearest

Hi Dearest
I'm Miss Sarah Williams, i slim in staure above all i like being honesty,trusted, sincere.
I have gonne through your porfiles, it interest me to know you more, and I hope to use
this opportunity to explain myself a little about me, i am fairin complexsion,5.9fit tall, 44kg.
I wish you to write me through id (miss_sarah_williams@yahoo.co.uk). also i will send you my
picture after hearing from you. Somethings I like to do in my spare time are gardening,
home improvement projects, camping, bicycling in the park, backyard bar-b-ques,
moon-lite walks on the beach, preparing candle-lite dinners for someone special,
sending flowers to someone special for some reasons, sitting and watching the sun set
with someone special, and cuddling in front of a fire with someone special. I enjoy
cooking, gardening, playing billards, darts, dinning out, going to the cinama, traveling
and site-seeing, museums, and concerts. I like almost any kind of music, but I think my
favourite is instrumental jazz. i will tell you more about myself again in my next mail dear
and hope to hear from you soon.
Love From,
Sarah williams.

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