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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 boxes" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • mrs_nadia221@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Nadia Guei" <mrs_nadia221@yahoo.it>
Reply-To: mrs_nadia221@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:25:33 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Please I Need Your Help


Ho cambiato indirizzo!Puoi ora scrivermi a questo indirizzo: mrs_nadia221@yahoo.it

Dear Friend,


Please permit me to make your acquaintance in an informal manner. This is necessitated by my urgent need to reach a dependable and trustworthy foreigner. This request may seem strange and unsolicited but I will crave your indulgence and pray that you view it seriously.In brief, my name is Mrs.NADIA GUEI the wife of the former president of Coted’Ivore Robert Guei.



However,both my husband is dead and my children including I,has been sent to exile by the combined military force team from the West African sub-region (Ecomog) with some ivorean militries right now we are not comfortable Imagine us under going all this stress because of power, Please I call for your immediate assistant I am a widow even (CNN )cover the news about the death of my late husband Late Robert Guei.pls you can view the website:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2269238.stm



Before we left to exile my husband been the bread winner of the family he for seen what will happen withtime, he now used his power while on Government to moved.Some trunk boxes contained ($52,000.000.00 million U.S.D.) cash deposited it with a security company in lome Togo as a famaily valueiable Items for security reason. Now we need your assistance to move this money to any country of your choice abroad. all along we are waiting so that every Issue of my husand must have cool down and forgotten a little before we will proceed on this transaction.When the funds are properly secured, we will joint invest yielding stock and business on.



Your advice your compensation for your immediate assistance is 25% of the cash, 5% for expenses, 70% for my family your urgent reply indicating your interest will help me in no small measure to stop further contact, all other details will be made know to you and more importantly you have to treat this transaction as very confidential as the hope of my entire families survivals is placed on this boxesThanks for your good understanding We wait for your immediate correspondence please attach your private Telephone and Fax numbers, This is a risk free transactions.



Best Regards,


Mrs.Nadia Guei



- Mrs.Nadia Guei

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