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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.
  • dbarnado@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Dora Bar <ba-dorat7@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:57:06 +0200
Subject: ASSISTANCE FOR AN INVESTMENT


ASSISTANCE FOR AN INVESTMENT

Good-day,

I am Dorathy Barnado the wife of a late Military General an erstwhile
top-ranking member of a frontline liberation movement in Angola, whose
organization had engaged the Angola government in a protracted civil
war since 1975.

I am therefore contacting you to assist me in channeling US$7.5 Million
U.S Dollars belonging to my late husband into a productive investment
ventures instead of war. I look to make this investment discreetly
under discretionary asset management arrangement.

I have contacted you on the consideration that you can assist me and
work out the possibility of placing this fund with you for management
either in your existing establishment or other venture to be undertaken
at your discretion under terms to be agreed upon. I therefore prefer
that this investment be made in your country.

I shall be expecting your response in order to furnish with details of
the funds. All replies in response of this mail shall be directed to my
private email address: dbarnado@netscape.net

Yours truly,
MRS DORATHY BARNADO
Email: dbarnado@netscape.net
_________________________________________________________________
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