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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 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.
  • efrataguru@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • efrataguru@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Sandra." <guruuuuruuuk@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: efrataguru@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:24:08 +0400
Subject: your friend Say Hi.

attention Please''
I am miss Sandra efrata nguluh the only Child of mr DONALDSON nguluh who suddenly pass away because of president MUGABE wickedness towards famers in Zimbabwe but i will disclose the other part of the story to you just as you reply back and once you confirm your genuinly interest of assisting me i promise you i will remain faithful to you . is true the fund am talking about is $8,200'000 dollars but it was deposited as a preciuse stone just to avoid any eye brow from any authority to be honest with you i have all the nessacery document my father use deposited it in security company some where in oversea . a part from my mother none of my family member knows about it for now .please until every thing is done i will need your confidence as you promise to keep all about this with you alone.but remenber is risk free deal i promise you that and as soon as every thing is done i will be with you in your country to investe some of it after you have collected your 20% which i have dicided to give you .may
God bless.
best regard nguluh Sandra'' sincerely ''
please mail to me at efrataguru@hotmail.com <http://us.f505.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=efrataguru@hotmail.com> or you can send your private number so that i can call you for more details thanks

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