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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.
  • barnadod@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "dorabar" <dorabar@canada.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:11:42 -0800
Subject: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL REQUEST

INVESTMENT PROPOSAL REQUEST

Sir,

I am Dorathy Barnado the wife of a late Military General an
erstwhile top-ranking member of a frontline liberation
movement in Angola,whose organization had engaged the Angola
government in a protracted civil
war since 1975.

I am therefore contacting you to assist me in channeling
$7.5Million
U.S Dollars belonging to my late husband into a productive
investment ventures instead of war.I looks to make this
investment discreetly under discretionary asset management
arrangement.

I have contacted you on the consideration that you can
assist me and
work out the possibility of placing this fund with you for
management either in your existing establishment or other
venture to be undertaken at your discretion under terms to
be agreed upon. I therefore prefers that this investment
be made in your country.

I shall be expecting your response in order to furnish with
details of the funds. All replies in response of this mail
shall be directed to my private email address:
barnadod@netscape.net

Yours truly,
MRS DORATHY BARNADO
Email: barnadod@netscape.net




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