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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)
  • "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.
• 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.
  • saili_joy16@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: saili_joy@freenet.de
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:41:15 +0200
Subject: Thanks and remain blessed.



I am Lady Saili Joy, suffering from cancerous ailment without a child.
I am married to Sir Peiter Saili an Englishman that is lateWhen my late
husband was alive he deposited the sum of Ten Million Dollars derived
from his vast estates and investment in capital market with his bank
here in Lome Togo. Recently,
my Doctor told me that I have limited days
to live due to the cancerous problems I am suffering from.Though what
bothers me most is the stroke that I have in addition to the cancer.
With this hard reality that has befallen my family and me I have

decided to donate this fund to you and want you to use this gift which
comes from my husbands effort to fund theUpkeep of widows, or phans
financially.Due to my ill health, i cannot go further than this. You can
contact me
through my alternative email saili_joy16@hotmail.fr
Thanks
and remain blessed.
Mrs.Saili Joy

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