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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:
  • "dear beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.
• 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.
  • gtmail_jo@mail.pt (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Rose tamas <rt_os_6@msn.com>
Reply-To: <gtmail_jo@mail.pt>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:12:41 +0000
Subject: Dear Beloved,



Dear Beloved,
I am Mrs Rose Tamas,suffering from cancerous ailment.I am married to Mr.Robert Tamas,my husband worked with Chevron Corporation for twenty years before he died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africains Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou, Benin republic on the december 25,2003. My late husband deposited the sum of £7.5 Million (Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds)in bank My Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the stroke and cancerous problems I am suffering from.I have decided to donate this fund to you and want you to use this gift which comes from my husbands effort to fund the upkeep of widows and charities worldwide.I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I do not want my husband hard earned money to be misused.Please contact me urgently via my personal email address; gtmail_jo@mail.pt With God all things are possible.
Your Sister Mrs.Rose Tamas

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