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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.
• 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.
  • lindadowell01@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?utf-8?q?Sgt=20Jim=20Collins?= <sgtjimcollins@yahoo.com.co>
Reply-To: lindadowell01@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:16:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: STRICLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:sgtjimcollins@yahoo.com.co



- FROM:MRS LINDA DOWELL MAIL:lindadowell01@yahoo.com My dear,I am MRS LINDA DOWELL, wife of Late John Sithole DOWELL who was murdered by the Zimbabwean war Veterans and irritate black people. Before the death of my husband on the 29th of July 2006, he was a prosperous tobacco and coffee farmer in Zimbabwe and one of the major sponsors/financiers of the opposition party- Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in Zimbabwe. He was also the former President of the Farmers Co-operative Trade Union in Zimbabwe.I am writing from Johannesburg South Africa.I gotyourcontacte-mailaddress from the South African International Information Exchange Center and decided to write you.I write to solicit for your special assist to help me secure and invest the sumof$22,000.000 us dorllas my late husband deposited in a security firm overseasRegards Mrs Linda Dowellcc:Barr Jim Collins

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