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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:
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • jenniferjoe155@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jennifer joe <jennifer_joe2006@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:30:18 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Good day Sir/Madam,



Dear sir,

Good day sir how is your family; hope fine I open up one website where I mind many email address, which I chose your email for an assistance.

I now know that you are a reliable and trust whorthy. Suprising this morning, my late fathers lawyer sent for me this morning to his office and he brought out my late father wills. According to the wills.

The wills shows that my late father has deposited 441kgs of raw gold value at $4.851M for me with a finance company and Now all this money belongs to me as my inheritance, Because I am the only daughter to my parents and my father and my mom is no more.

I don’t want my father brother to know about this Inheritance. Because my father’s brother has sold my entire father, s Land properties without given me any thing, because my mother is not alive.

My Love I need your assistance now, I want you to help me to contact the lawyer and told him that you are my husband and my trustee’s/my investors who will invest the fund for me.

I want u to receive this gold fund and you will help me to come over to your country and continue my life with you over there. The total money is
($ 4.851 million dollars.)

Immediately I hear from you I will get the lawyer contact information’s and send it across to you for you to contact the lawyer. So that, the lawyer will give you all the details concerning the deposited fund (Inheritance). Thanks for all that u have done for me, as I have promise you, I will make u a happy man very soon, so that we can live and better life together .

Regards,
Jennifer.
Alternative emai: jenniferjoe155@yahoo.com.



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