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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.
  • info_gomes7net@yahoo.com.vn (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Antonio Gomes" <gomes_anthonio@wall.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:38:54 +0100
Subject: From Gomes

Attn: Dear,

Hello my good friend, i will want you to get back to me after reading my mail. However i know you don't know me in person, before anything let me tell you about myself. i am Mr. Antonio Gomes. Working as a remittance director in a Bank here in Cote D'Ivoire.

For your information, one Late Mrs. Roseline Clark deposited the sum of $2,500,000. in our Bank here in Cote D'Ivoire before she died in the year 2003. And since she died. Nobody has come for the claims of the fund, so that is why i am writing you this proposal to act as her next of kin so that our Bank can transfer the fund into your account. All i need from you is your full Banking information where i am going to transfer the fund into. And i will give you 20% from the total fund as soon as the fund gets into your account.

Finally, you can call me with this number 0022508564252
for further details, or you write me through my personal email address that is stated herein ;
info_gomes7net@yahoo.com.vn <mailto:info_gomes7net@yahoo.com.vn>

Thanks and God bless you.

Best Regards,

Mr. Antonio Gomes.

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