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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • adamshapiness3@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss.Happiness Adams" <adamshapiness1@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: adamshapiness4@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:57:58 +0100
Subject: From Miss.Happiness Adams

Hello ,

My name is miss Happiness Adams Age 26 years old Its mine wounderful pleasure to write you .How was your day?.Mine was hot only that i live in the refugee camp here in dakar senegal. In the camp we are only allowed to go out only by taking permition from our UN camp master Its just like one staying in the prison and i hope by Gods grace i will come out there.

I am from sierra leon in west afica and my late father Dr Robert Adams was the personal adviser to the late former head of state who was killed last year september a long side with my father.i don't have any relatives now whom i can go to all my relatives ran away in the middle of the war ,i am leaving in the womens hostel because the camp have two hostels one for men the other for women.

As a refugee here i don't have any right or privilledge to any thing because of the law of this country.I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year before the traggic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.

Please listen to this,i have some deposit certificate of my late father's properties here with me because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in security company here which he used my name as the next of kin, the amount in question is $7.5000(Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand American Dollars).

So i will like you to help me transfer this money to your account and from it you can send some money for us to get travelling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you. I kept this secret to people in the camp here.

So in the light of above i will like you to please send to me your currect Phone number and House address ? so that i will mail to you the contact of and finance company for you to confirm from the finance company dakar senegal telling them you are interested in my consignment which is under their custody and they should tell you the necessary requirement needed for the consignment to be shipped to you in your country of
destinantion.

I like honest and understanding people,truthful and a man of vision
and hardworking With love.God bless you.

Am waiting for your reply: adamshapiness3@yahoo.com

Miss.Happiness Adams.

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