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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • yojlena@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS JOY OKOU" <okoujoy@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: yojlena@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:31:46 +0400
Subject: FROM JOY OKOU

>From the desk of
the director(CEO)
mrs joy
sir / madam,
I got your mail address in your profile, I want to bring you into a business that will fetch us a deal worth of
($26.5m USD), Twenty-Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars. if only you will be honest and make it remain confidential. It is all about squiring the above mention amount, that I discovered as an
outstanding sum, that was miscalculated and included as part payment to our foreign contractor's payment.
I was appointed the director in charge of this payment. as this opportunity came up, I immediately have decided to make good use of it, to carry out this fund
into a foreign account, as we here in the ministry are not allowed to operate foreign account, hence I seek your assistance.
please send across to me your personal phone and fax no. your bank detail were to transfer this fund, to facilitate this business, including your postal address, I will reach you with more details as I read from you thanks expecting your soonest response
best regards from,also you can mail me on this yojlena@yahoo.com
mrs joy .

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