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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • iyasa_willson0@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Iyasa Willson" <iyasa_willson1@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: iyasa_willson2@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:15:21 +0200
Subject: Is me Miss Iyasa Willson from Jakarta Indonesia


Dearest One,

How are you? With hope that you and your family are OK.Sorry for sending you this message, i just hope and pray that you will understand and be of assistance to me. Story of my life is so sad, but i am hoping you can bring back joy, love and affection .

I am Miss Iyasa Willson,from Indonesia. I lost my parents and all my family in the Tsunami Disaster, 26Th Dec. 2004. Its difficult to forget this day in my life. I am the only survivor in my family because i was away to college in Jakarta when it happened. Since then i have tried to live on my own, without any family, each day of my life i face lot of trauma. I don't want to tell you so much about my life story because you never caused my predicament, but just need you to help me relocate my trust fund which my late father kept for me in a safe deposit with a FINANCE company here in Jakarta.

The amount is $3.2 Million Dollars. I want you to help me contact the company in Jakarta, that you are my late father's associate, so that the safe deposit can be release to you. I don't have any experience to manage this sum of money.

Please help me to be my investment manager to make this money useful to me, so that i can have hope for good future, continue my education and live a normal life again. You can have 30% of this, while i have 70% in our joint investments. I want to move out of Indonesia as quickly as possible to meet with you after you have received the fund , because each day i live in trauma and fear of another possible Tsunami. Please dear friend, i trust you not to abandon me in this my situation. Help me now. I hope to get your reply. With lots of love.
iyasa_willson0@yahoo.fr

Miss Iyasa Willson

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