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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found 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.
  • genevieve_lloyd1980@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Genevieve Lloyd <genevieve_lloyd@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: genevieve_lloyd1980@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:03:03 +0000
Subject: Important Partnership Information


Dear Friend,

I have this proposal to talk to you about, I want you to work with me as my partner in a business that I am into for sometime now, but due to some circumstances I had to stop. I want you to be my partner or a contact man in a diamond sales deal. I sell diamond and most of my client are in North America, all I want is for you to be a medium of contact between me and my clients, you will be more of like a middleman, there are a lot to benefit from the sales of these stones please if you are interested kindly get back to me or when I am online you can talk to me about it, I will tell you what we need to do to get this going.

Thanks,
Genevieve Lloyd.
Genevieve_lloyd1980@yahoo.co.uk

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