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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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• 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.
  • rev-adams@mail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS ROLDA MUTAN" <thukn2@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: rolda4love@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:44:52 +0200
Subject: Compasation

Good Day ,
I know you cannot remember me and my family's again? I am Mrs Rolda Mutan who you helped in money transaction last year August, I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transffered under the co-operation of a new partner from London UK. Presently i'm in UK with my family's Ahmed and Lala for investment projects with my own share of the total
sum.
Meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assit me and my family in
transffering those funds despite that it failed us somehow due to your financail involve to execute the transfer to your account.
Now contact this Church in Dakar Senegal email:(rev-adams@mail.com)
ask him to send you the total bank Draft of sum $800.000.00 (EIGTH HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) i purposely hand it over to the Reverend John Adams in your favour for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me and my family's in this matter. i appreciated your efforts at that time very much.
so feel free and get intouched with the Church and give him your post address where to send the Certified Bank Draft to you. Please make sure that you get this money out from the Church it was in your name certified Bank Draft which you can only deposit in your bank when recieve it,fill free and get intouch with the Church the name of the Church is DIVINE CHURCH OF GOD MISSION DAKAR SENEGAL Telephone + 221 4127704,you should plan to visit me and my family's in UK when you have recieve the fund in your position.
best regards,
Mrs Rolda Mutan & Family's.

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