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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• 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.
  • ber196095@yahoo.es

Fraud email example:

From: anna arnold <babyboy2513@web.de>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:38:09 +0100
Subject: PLEASE, ACCOMPLISH THIS TASK






Hello Dear,=20

Please give me this little chance to explain myself to you, I would have l=
ike to meet you face to face before departing from this mother earth but m=
y illness continue to deprive the chance, but I know I am strong even if I=
die on the process of this operation i will still praise ALMIGHTY.

My name is Lady Jenny Peters; I am a dying woman who decided to donate wha=
t I have to you which is to be used to assist poor people and charity home=
s. I am 59 years old and I was diagnosed for cancer for about 2 years ago,=
immediately after the death of my husband, who has left me everything he =
worked for and because the doctors told me I will not live longer than som=
e weeks because of my health, I decided to WILL/donate the sum of $2,500,0=
00(two million five hun dre d thousand dollars) to you for the good work o=
f the lord, and also to help the motherless and less privilege and also fo=
r the assistance of the widows in general.
=20
I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly, and pl=
ease use the funds well and always extend the good work to others should e=
ncase I did not survive this major operation I am about to go through now,=
but all I need now is prayers.=20

I will like you to Contact my lawyer for all the assistance you need to ge=
t this money into your account (Snr E.Boyd) with this specified email:cham=
ber196095@yahoo.es and let him know all I just said about this money,($2,5=
00,000.00) although he is aware of my intension. Please send him all the b=
elow informations for easy communication.

1. Your Full Name
2. Contact Telephone Number,Mobile Number and Fax.

NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality and trust in t hi s matt=
er to accomplish my heart desire, as I don't want anything that will jeopa=
rdize my last wish.

Thanks and God bless.


From Lady Jenny Peters



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italedienste.web.de/freemail/club/lp/=3Flp=3D7]

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