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

Fraud email example:

From: "rev father" <revfatherjeanjoseph@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:39:45 +0200
Subject: pray for me .

I am the rev. Joseph father of a small village locates at the north of the Ivory dimension (Tafire). In this village, it y' has also Moslems, but I have to succeed in converting much.
I organize the every day at home despriere. We are much and my house is too small to accomodate all this monde.c' is for what we wanted built a church in this village so that all then venis to request and listen to the word of God. Like Jesus said: help is god you aidera.nous made a contribution, but what one has to gain only could pay a hectar and half of ground. This is why we wanted that you bring your assistance to us so that we begin work for the construction of the church.
Jesus said: That that which offers its assistance has more merit than that which reçoi. This said not Christian because one only requests, but assi by the behavior and takes part in a construction of church makes start from this behavior and one gains merit there. Some would be the assistance, all will have bénèdiction by the grace of god. If you reçevez this message and that you can do something for this contruction of church, to contact us on: revfatherjeanjoseph@yahoo.com <http://us.f555.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=revfatherjeanjoseph@yahoo.com> That the peace of god would be with all.

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