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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:
  • "might come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • tina.andrew@personal.ro (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "HELP MS. TINA" <helpliberianlady@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:56:19 +0000
Subject: INVESTMENT PARTNER WANTED

Greetings,
I sincerely ask for forgiveness for I know this may seem
like a complete intrusion to your privacy but right about now
this is my option of communication. This mail might come to
you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as
unserious could come into your mind; but please consider it a divine
wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility. I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a relationship.
My name is Tina Andrew, the first and only daughter of late Mr.
Johnson Andrew who was the former director of Liberian national diamond
Company. I need your assistance to stand as my foreign investor and receiver an
amount of three million five hundred thousand U.S. dollars
(US$3,500.000.00) this money was deposited in a transit account with a bank by my
late father for his oversea investment, but he couldn’t establish the investment before he was killed by the rebel.
All you need you to do is, send me your contact information, so that I will
Forward it to my late father banker after that, you will then contact
the banker for verifications and the transfer shall take place immediately to your nominated receiving bank account of yours in any part of the world you wish them to transfer the said fund to.
You are allowed 25% of the total sum as your cut when the money gets into your account, while you help me secure visa to come over to your country to continue my education and invest my own share of the inheritance fund.
I await your response.
Miss. Tina Andrew
PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS ONLY: tina.andrew@personal.ro

Anti-fraud resources:

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