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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "dear beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • mrs_felicia@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "assistus@terra.es" <assistus@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:54:18 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED




Dear Beloved,
If there was ever a time I needed help its now. We need your concern
on those that need our help. This people are in this for a long time and i stand to this that they should not be rejected because they are humans like us most of them are
Americans,Africans and in other part of the world so when i saw them one accord i decided to bring them in together as one.And for so long now we have been asking people to contribute to help them move on into life.I so dearly hope. I know that you will help to fight agaist it. because most of them have been alited with some dangerous diseases such as (HIV, MALARIA, AND OTHERS).

Please order to help this ones.And Almighty God will bless you and your family AMEN
I'm going to try to make them feel at home, and don't want them to
have any tought that while God created them at all.
If anyone has clothes of any kind of size either (Boy,Girl Baby clothes that your child,children or your self ) and that can assist us financially or materially.Please i want you to contact me via my E-mail incase of any volottretment, find below is some of them in photo graph.

Thanks
Name:Mrs felicia madeli
Email:mrs_felicia@myway.com
Phone:+27-097857789
Address:35, grubersang close stn/pal #7.south africa.








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