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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:
  • "cotonou" (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.
  • alisa_d2ky@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: alisa8@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:09:35 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GREETINGS=20FROM=20MRS=20ALISA=20DONA?=

Dearest Friend,

I am Mrs Alisa Dona from serrie-loene writing you from COTONOU, REPULIC
OF BENIN, I beleive by God's grace I got your contact in confidence After
asking for God's directions,Despite I never disclose why I needed your contact
to any body.

I wish to know if you can assist us in by removing and handling both our
fund of $9.Million (Nine million U.S. Dollars and Gold, invest Presently
in your land of business,the fund and the gold is still in the Falcon Trust
Security Company,where my late husband deposited it for safe keeping and
my husband never disclosed the content to the Falcon Trust Security Company,
he only decleard it as "personal/family treasure"because he do not want
the company to know the content of the boxes.

Since you are involved in associated business in your country, I and my
son will love if we will invest our fund in your business and you help us
look for a buyer of gold over there, because we do not know any body overseas,and
we don' t want to do anything here in Africa.

I and my son are in need of a God fearing person who will assist us very
well in this fund that we are about to invest overseas, where we will invest
it properly with the person's advice.If you can assist us receive this fund,
kindly send to me your phone number with fax,and your full name and address
for us to get you approved as our beneficiary,because we want to finalize
this in five or six days from today.

I am honourably seeking for your assistance in the following ways:

(1)To assist me to move this my late husband money out of the security company
to your conutry successfully.

(2)To make arrangement for me and my son to come over to your country for
investment,

Please let me know if you are interested to assist us so that I will send
you my phone number for you to call me and discuss on the percentage we
will offer you also send you the aggreement which my late husband deposited
the consignment with. Kindly contact me with my private E-mail (alisa_d2ky@yahoo.fr)

Hope to receive your reply today.

Yours faithfully,

>From Mrs Elizabeth Alisa Donna




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