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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:
  • "trunk box" (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.
  • e_tinambaca200@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Elizabeth Tinambacan" <elizabet10@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: e_tinambaca200@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:05:14 +0000
Subject: From Mrs Elizabeth D. Tinambacan


From Mrs Elizabeth D. Tinambacan
PLS REPLY ME WITH THIS ID.( e_tinambaca200@yahoo.fr )
My name is Elizabeth D.Tinambacan,The wife of Rev. Jemias Tinambacan who
was the Deputy Secretary General of Bayan Muna party-list group in Southern
Tagalog.who is recently attack and killed in philippine on the 27 may 2006.

Before my late husband was killed,I inherited sum total of ($14,000.000 USD.
Fourteen Million USDollars) from some cocoa business import we made with my
late husband, this money which my late husband put in a metallic trunk box
and deposited it in a security and finance company in Cote D' Ivoir. This
deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a family treasure. This
means that the security company does not know the content of this trunk box.

My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you
and perhaps trustworthy to give you this priority of shipping the box of
money to any address that you think is very secure and save in your country.


I hope to trust you as who will not sit on this money when you claim it.i
made up my mind to give you 25% of the total money for your help ,after you
have secured the box for my kids future. Hopping to hear from you. on (
e_tinambaca200@yahoo.fr )
Elizabeth D. Tinambacan.

Anti-fraud resources:

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