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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:
  • "hundred thousand u.s 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.
  • rither0@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Rither Amadi" <rithermdi024@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: rither0@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:00:50 +0000
Subject: Miss Rither Amadi

Good Day Dear,

I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of
tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously.
I am asking for your assistance after I have gone through a
profile that speaks good of you.

I will be so glad if you can allow and lead me to the right
channel towards your assistance to my situation now.
I will make my proposal well known if I am given the opportunity.
I would like to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you. well,
I am Rither Amadi 24 years old lady and I know that this
proposal might be a surprise to you but do consider it as
an emmergency.In nutshell, My (late)father COL PETER AMADI ,
was the personal advicer to the former works and
housing minister in my country Sierra Leone in west africa.
But he was killed along side with my mother during the
longing civil war and all his properties was totally destroyed.

However, after their death I managed to escape with a very
important document(DEPOSIT CERTIFICATE of (US$10.5m)
Ten million Five hundred thousand U.S Dollars deposited by
my late father in a ( FINANCE COMPANY in EUROPE )
which i am the next of kin. Meanwhile,i am saddled with the
problem of securing a trust worthy foriegn personality to help
me transfer the money over to his country and into his
possession pending my arrival to meet with him.

Furthermore,you can contact the company for confirmation
and i will issue a letter of authorisation on your name,that
will enable the finance company to deal with you on my behalf.
I am giving you this offers as mentioned with every confidence
on your acceptance to assist me or take me as your wife or
child and manage the money.

Conclusively,i wish you send me a reply immediately as
soon as you recieve this proposal. at

rither0@yahoo.com

Thanks
Miss Rither Amadi

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