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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.
  • cyril.scott2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Cyril Scott" <cyril.scott24@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: cyril.scott2@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:19:24 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR PARTNERSHIP IN INVESTMENT

I am Miss.Cyril Scott,I am the only surviving daugther of late Mr.Michael
Scott.who was assasinated by unknown gun men.recently i was contacted
through a diplomatic firm that he deposited the sum of $25.4 Million Dollars
in their custody. Please i need your assistance to claim and invest this
fund into any viable venture in your country which you know that will yield
us profit.

For quick processing of this fund if you accept my offer, I will avail you a
reputable Attorney information who will execute all procedure documentations
on our behalf,lf you will help me, i promise to offer you 30%. Please kindly
send me your detail informations such as your full name,phone and fax number
and your contact address , so that the processing of the claim can effectly
be commenced by you with the aid of the attorney.Write me on my private
email:cyril.scott2@yahoo.com

Thanks, looking forward to your favourable reply .
Yours,
Miss Cyril Scott.

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