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

Fraud email example:

From: "Josephine Yengeni" <josexxyen@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: josexyen@yahoo.ca
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:51:00 +0000
Subject: Josephine Yengeni

Good Day Dear,

My name is Josephine Yengeni, citizen of South Africa.
I obtained your contact by a personal research.

I am the Sister of Mr. Tony Yengeni (the President of the
African Southern Parliament and the former vice president
of reigning political part ( ANC). Considering the confidence
which he has in me, he asked me to seek by my intermediary
a foreign associate worthy of confidence which will be able
to help he to receive some funds, that he had deposited in
a company of safety before the release of the problem in our country.

The amount deposited in special case contains a sum
of 14M $ US (fourteen million American dollars).

The person will assist us in the reception and the bancarisation
of the funds since our bank accounts in my country have be
close by the authorities since our brother was held.

I would return you to these Web sites for further information
about my family. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2756861.stm>
Please i want you to handl this urgently i promise you that your
assistance to me will be totally reworded.because of the safet of
the fund i run out of my country to Dakar Senegal to look for am
honest person that can help us.

I will like to receive your urgent respond if you can honestly help me
at josexyen@yahoo.ca

best regard

Josephine Yengeni

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