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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.
• 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.
  • veronika2006franklin@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Veronika Franklin." <veronikafranklin100@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: veronika_2006franklin@yahoo.co.in
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 14:57:24 +0000
Subject: good day.

Dear,

I got your contact from the Ecowas Infomation Center
in SENEGAL.My sources of your contact gave me the
courage and confidence.It is my pleasure to contact
you for a business venture which I intend to establish
in your country,though I have not met with you before
but I believe one has to risk confiding in success
sometimes in life.I am Mis Veronika Franklin,

the daughter of the former minister for DEFENCE
and INTERIOR.There is this huge amount of
US$6.8million (SIX MILION EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND
US DOLLARS) which my late father kept for us in
a bank here in senegal dakar before he was assassinated
by unknown persons.

Now I and my younger brother have decided to invest
these money in your country or anywhere save enough
outside Africa for security and political reasons.

We want you to help us claim and retrieved these
fund from the Fiduciary Fund Holders and Transfer
it into your personal account in your country for
investment purposes on profitable ventures.

If you can be of an assistance to us, we will be pleased
to offer you 25% of the total fund.while we have set
aside 15% of the total fund for any expenses incur by
you during the process.I await your soonest response
through our private mailbox:

Your house Addres............................
Your Phone Number .........................
Your Fax Number .............................
N.B. Upon your interest, I will forward you the
security company contact immediately.
veronika2006franklin@yahoo.co.in
Respectfully yours,
Veronika Franklin.

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