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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (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.
  • olgaheinrich600@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "olgaheinrich1" <olgaheinrich1@terra.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:15:33 -0600
Subject: HELLO


GUTEN TAG ,
Please i hope you would not be embarassed
by this.actually i am a german, who got
married to a nigerian man 5 years ago,that
was in 2002. My husband is someone that can be
described as rich when he was alive.he was
well acquainted with business and thus had
several companies which include ABOMAR gas and
oil limited ,andy best trransporting agencies as
well as a large palm plantation.infact upon
my husbands death am estimation of his
asset was $6.2MILLION.inaddition to the liquid
cash which is about $3.6million in the
bank.please you have to know that consequent
upon my husbands death,his family members
gathered and are threatning to strip of all
the financial earnings despite the fact that
our marriage was contracted under the required
statutory provisions of the act which
specifies that upon the death of the husband
the wife shall inherit all the
belongings of the deceased husband. please ,
i want you to help me so as to tranfer
the raw cash into an account before the
family members come up with whatever africanism
ideas the have.please i urgently require
your help.please contact me immediately. i
strongly belive i can bank on you.Please
you can write me through.. olgaheinrich600@yahoo.de ..
You can call me with this number 234-8063860844.
OLGA

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