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

Fraud email example:

From: Simonet Clarita <simonet_clarita@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: clarita.simonet@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:02:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Greeting


Dear,

Please, I know this may sound strange to you, receiving a mail from an unknown person, but condition forced me to do this. I am a 46 years old woman from French Polynesia who is suffering from cancerous disease and according to medical experts my chance of survival is under probability.

However, I sent to you this email to have you assist me with the purpose of securing the release and transfer of the fund: 6.800.000 (Six Million Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds) which I inherited from my late husband (Dr. Jean-Paul Simonet) into your account or your organizations account, and to have me come over to your country for a proper medical attention which is of importance to me at this point while the funds are being properly and legitimately invested.

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 suggest that will be to the benefit of the less privileged.

I therefore wish to hear from you for an urgent response.
Thank you for your confidence.
Yours sincerely faithful,
Mrs. Clarita Simonet
Please ONLY contact me at my home email address:
clarita.simonet@yahoo.com


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