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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.
  • usrhapr@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "caroline" <carolinedks@gmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: carlindicks@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:53:37 +0000
Subject: HELP TO REBUILD NEW ORLEANS

Dear Companion,
My name is Madam Caroline Dickson; I am the Public Relation Officer of
the Hurricane Rebuilding Program Committee. Now, as the months drag on, New Orleans, Louisiana has been removed from the headlines. But homelessness, strained living conditions, separation from friends and broken lives still bring day-by-day tears,
heartache and humiliation unimaginable to the non-Gulf Coast dweller. The effort to rebuild New Orleans, Louisiana involves everyone. We welcome your thoughts and ideas as the planning and design process of recovery and rebuilding begins. The Hurricane Rebuilding is likely to take up to five years, according to report from the American Institute of
Architects.It is therefore our assignment to invite skillful organizations, students, youth, unemployed men and women to take part in the Rebuilding of Hurricane Affected Cities Program. As the Public Relation Officer of the Hurricane Rebuilding Committee, I wish to bring to your knowledge that we had been able to secure support from our partners, donors, and the State Government of the United States. Flight tickets grant and visas
support will be render to international volunteers that require entry visas to the United States.
If you are willing and ready to render a helping hand in the Rebuilding of Hurricane Affected Cities Program, please contact Sandra Kelly at usrhapr@yahoo.com <http://us.f574.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=usrhapr@yahoo.com> or fax: 1-484-492-4581. Tell her you are been called upon by Madam Caroline Dickson to be part of the hurricane-rebuilding program.
Looking forward to your participation.
Yours faithfully,
Madam Caroline Dickson
For Hurricane Rebuilding Committee

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