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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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.
  • alisaedona@rediffmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dona Alisa E." <alisaedona77777@mailbox.hu>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 10:20:03 -0700
Subject: I await your respond


Compliments Dear,
I was compelling to contact you for this business transaction.

I am Mrs. Alisa E. Dona from Sierra Leone, but writing you from China. I was
happily married to late Mr. Jacc Dona, we were both married for 7 years
without a child, and he died during the war in sierra Leone.

My late husband was a Gold and Diamond merchant based in West Africa, before
he died he has the sum of $10.1M (Ten Million One Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) in a depository box he deposited in one of the security firm
in Republic of Ghana under my name. I need your assistance to relocate the
funds to your country or your resident state, for investment.

Presently am diagnosed with cancer of the breast, and am writing you from my
sick bed in a hospital in China where am undergoing surgical operation. I
want to relocate the funds to your country for investment, but due to my
deteriorate health condition am unable to carry on.

I seek for your help to make the change of ownership of the depository box
containing the funds ($10.1M) to your favor, and relocate to your care in
your country, for joint partnership in the investment of the funds in a
lucrative business, after my recovering from the surgical operation I shall
join you in your country for the investment.

I offer you 15% of the total sum for your honorarium assistance to relocate
the funds to your country, while we have joint partnership in the investment
of the 80% and 5% have been set to refund any expenses in cure during the
process of this delivery. If you have accepted to assist me, urgently
contact me at alisaedona@rediffmail.com<http://us.f351.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=alisaedona@live.com>for
more detail to proceed on this business without delays.

Bless you
Mrs. Alisa E. Dona

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