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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • cathrinenew@terra.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Catherine Newman <dp2000_ie@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: cathrinenew@terra.com
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:59:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Please Reply Urgently!



Please Reply Urgently!
Reply to cathrinenew@terra.com
 
Dear,
     I am contacting you to let you know my desire to establish a charity foundation in your country with this sum of: £4.800.000 (Four million eight hundred thousand British pounds) which I inherited from my late husband (Dr.Thomas Newman)
 
It is my desire to see that this money is invested to any organization of your choice in your country and distributed each year among the charity organizations, motherless baby¢s home, mosques, churches, Schools, supporting destitute aged men and women or whatever you may have in mind that will be to the benefit of the less fortunate.
 
I took this decision because I was raised from a motherless baby¢s home and presently, I'm hospitalized here in (C.H.U De COCODY ABIDJAN) where I am undergoing treatment for my up coming breast cancer surgery operation.
 
Please reply as soon as possible to confirming your acceptance to claim the deposit on my behalf so that I will give you all the relevant information that will authorise the release and transfer of the money to you as my duly assigned representative.
 
Thank you in advance for your consideration and I hope to hear from you urgently.
 
Please contact me at my home email address
(cathrinenew@terra.com)
 
Yours sincerely faithful
Catherine Newman (Mrs)
 

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