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

Fraud email example:

From: Tellervo Bergroth <mrstbergroth010@msn.com>
Reply-To: <tellervobergroth@terra.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:27:54 +0000
Subject: Message / Dr. Tellervo Bergroth (Mrs)




Message / Dr. Tellervo Bergroth (Mrs)

Dear,
I am contacting you to let you know my desire to establish a charity foundation in your country with this sum: GBP£4.500.000 (Four million five hundred thousand British pounds) which I inherited from my late husband (Dr. Tord Bergroth)

It is my desire to see that this money is invested to any business/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 to hand over this money to you because I am presently hospitalized here in (C.h.u de Cocody Abidjan) where I am undergoing treatment for my up coming breast cancer surgery operation and alternative treatment for my cerebrovascular disease [stroke].

As you may wish to know there are no risks involved in this whole transaction, I therefore look forward to your early reply 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.

Please reply ONLY at my home email address below for privacy purposes:
Email: tellervobergroth@terra.com
I remain,
Yours Sincerely Faithful Dr. Tellervo Bergroth (Mrs)

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