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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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• 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.
  • lili2006_lilia@yahoo.ca

Fraud email example:

From: lilia <lili2006_lilia@yahoo.ca>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 06:52:07 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: hellooo ENG




Hello My Dear, How are you doing? Hope fine. Thanks for your mail. I like meeting new friends and sharing views and opportunities.a lady, base in Canada. I´m working with CANADA FOREIGN WORKERS RECRUITMENT ASSOCIATIONS ) . We are preparing the Seasonal Worker's recruitment program taking place in the Canada, Europe and Africa. We are inviting groups of able and skillful youths from each of the selected countries around the world. I guess you will be interested in this program?
Sometimes, life certainly can feel that way..… And what better shelter from the storms and trials of daily life than friendship and to know that there is someone out there you can fall back on and care to be friend with you.
Really, people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there...to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become.
I am the second, in the family of three. First of us is Robert, me (Lilia) and Betty the last of us. Am a Canadian citizen.
My father is the head of the United Nations representative in Mexico and still on a diplomatic mission. My mother is currently serving the Canadian Department of Human Resources and Skills Development, in Montreal, Quebec and ontario . My hobbies are reading, watching movies, listening to soft music, long driving, swimming and traveling. I will be pleased also to hear about you, your family and your cultures.
Our country is a free society and a land of hope for all, it’s also a land of dreams and victory for those who think widely. Ooops, some call it ''Heaven on Earth". my photo will be with you on my next mail , and send me yours while we blossom in this relationship.
Hope to hearing from you soon.
Bye for now,
Yours Lilia.
lili2006_lilia@yahoo.ca










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