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

Fraud email example:

From: "Albert Donalson" <infoatg@walla.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:47:16 +0100
Subject: From Mr Donalson.

Hello Dear,

Please i will want you to bear with my request after reading my proposal, and be of good assistance to me,because bad people in this world has made us not to trust the good once again. But i still believe intruth and honesty, and i don't like anything lie in mylife, anybody that lie will die for nothing.
Well, i know you don't know me in person, but allthesame. I am Mr. Albert Donalson, resident inAbidjan-Cote D'Ivoire. For your information, i have been working in a Bank here in Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoireas the remittance director for the past 15 years.
In addition, one late Mrs. Lilian Lambo that was aGold exporter here in Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoire depositedthe sum of $5,500,000. (Five Million Five HundredThousand) Before she died, and since she died nobodyhas come for the claims of the money. So please all ineeded from you is for you to send to me a trust Bankaccount that will enable me to start the remittance of
the fund into your account.
Finally, i have made up my mind to give you the sum of 30% from the total fund as soon as it gets into your account. So please try and reply me through this
email: infooatg@yahoo.it
Thanks and God bless.

Best Regards,

Mr. Albert Donalson.

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