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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • laarni36@katamail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "laariquez" <laariquez@canada.com>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 01:51:06 -0800
Subject: Compliments

Dear,

This letter might surprise you because we have met neither
in person nor by correspondence, but I believe that it takes
just one day to meet or know someone either physically or
through correspondence. Your profile revealed you as being
quite astute in private entrepreneurship, one has no doubt
in your ability to handle a financial business transaction.

I am actress Laarni Ejercito Enriquez Costal Rica origin,
though adapted and brought up in the household of Joseph
Estrada the ousted former president of Philippine, my
hardworking and versatility made Joseph Estrada took me as
his most respected confidante and mistress.

While in office, my intimacy with Joseph compelled him to
confided most of his top agenda secrets to me as well as
being used to sneaked fund out of the Filipino while in
power, all these gave room to his first wife, Madam Loi
Estrada and her son, Jude always on my neck for fear of
inheritance of the Joseph's assets not knowing to them.

This led to public embarrassment and people came to know
that I had been having an affair with the President. She
madam Estrada does every thing to bring me to book by
misinforming journals about my extra marital affairs with
Joseph Estrada even went as far as fabricating charges I am
ignorant of, arranging from sponsoring rebel opposition ,
country fund misappropriation and harbouring some of the
dissidents and arms in one of the villa, constructed for me
by the President.All these led political sanctions of all
kind placed on Philippine immigration watchlist.

With all this injustice, confiscation of my assets and
sanctions facing me here in Mandaluyong City, Pilipino could
be better imagine as house arrest with occasional parole
granted to me to communicate associates, and limited family
members. all this had compelled me to contact you to see if
you would be capable to help me out with my resettlement and
asset relocation plans.

First, I would like to know if you would be willing to help
me out .I would like you to help see how you can contact a
security firm in Africa where undisclosed sum of
approximately ten million united states dollars has been
disguised in metallic box as family valuables .This fund I
think I have every legitimate documentation backing its
deposit .It will please me if you would like to help me with
my plans and purpose of confiding this to you.

In short, I am short of language to convey my present plight
to seek your empathetic if only you will promise to help I
would let you know what exactly expected of you to do
without risk or fear of being dwindle in respect of this
fund relocation from the security firm holding the fund in
disguised of family valuable

If possible better you reach me with my personal email
bellow as you know there must be a kind of reservation on my
fund relocation plans to you on an open medium of this
nature to avoid unscrupulous persons camouflaging in names
to take advantages on innocent fellows willing to help out

With love


Laarni.E



PLEASE MAKE ALL REPLIRES TO:-- laarni36@katamail.com




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