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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:
  • "the consignment" (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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: sheremeveta nadezda <sheremeveta_nadezda22@live.fr>
Reply-To: <sheremeveta_nadezda2007@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:30:23 +0100
Subject: Good Evening,



Good Evening,

I am sending you this message to explain my problems to you to know if you can render a helping hand. My name is MRS.SHEREMET EVA NADEZDA from RUSSIA. I am the wife of MR.BANOKOV SHEREMET. I lost my husband and the only daughter in the las Tsunami disaster that hit Thailand. Before the death of my husband, he deals on cocoa and coffee business.

Presently, I am having a big problem with my late husband's brothers because of the wealth and the landed properties he left behind. They forced me to release all his bank deposit informations and all the documents about his landed properties.They did not stop there; they are monitoring my movements till today to the extent that I can not go out freely nor answer or make telephone calls.They can only give me food and shelter and nothing else.

I can only have access to the internet at times when I am left with the little ones and our house security guard. It is because of this problem that I decided to contact you to help me from this ugly situation.

Because of my relationship with my husband, he told me before his death, about another money he has in CANADA. The money was in a box deposited with an agent in CANADA and the amount is US$4.5 million. He made me to understand that the money was deposited as a family valuable for security reasons, in this case the officials of the CANADIAN security outfit does not know that the real content of the box is money.

The brothers of my late husband are not aware of this deposit and they will never know about it. I am therefore seeking for your assistance to help me secure the consignment from CANADA to your country for safety and investment.You can even go to CANADA so that you can see things for yourself.
Once I got your response to help me, I will get back to you with the details on how we should proceed.

I shall be waiting for your swift response.Sincerely yours,MRS.SHEREMETEVA NADEZDA
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