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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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• 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.
  • san_kelv@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "KELVIN GODSON" <san_kelv@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: san_kelvi@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:36:09 +0100
Subject: THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

Dear

Forgive my indignation if this message come to you as a surprise and if
it might offend you without your prior consent and writing through this channel.

My name is kelvin godson,i came from sierra Leone and i do based now in Senegal with my twin sister Sandra godson as refugees.

Me and my younger sister do leave in Senegal as refugees whom seek asylum to Senegal Government. do to the war we have for the past 11-12 years now.that has almost come to an end. we do come from the family of seven,five children with our parents.sorry to say this to you, the family of seven have just two people left now on this earth.The rest of them do pass away during the civil war.may their gentle souls R.I.P.And abide with the Lord for ever and ever amen.
we were first taken care here by Senegal government but now the government is not doing anything to keep our life on going. no food ,no drinking water,no clothes to put on.we now have to labour very hard to feed our self here.So me and my younger sister Sandra have decided to go back home to face any thing we see right there at home.

so what we need from you is your assistance which matters allot to us.that is given to us what ever you do want us to get to assist our self going back to our home town.Like transportation's,feeding money and some ting to keep us going on.

pls dont let us die in hunger and starvation here in Senegal.
you can reach to us by using this mail san_kelv@yahoo.com.
May God bless you as you volunteer to assist the poor and keep our life forward.
regards
kelvin and Sandra godson.

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