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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 orphan scam.
• 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.
  • annebates_2000@yahoo.co.jp (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <annebates08@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:06:03 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FROM M/S ANNE BATES FROM TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Good day to you.
My name is Anne N. Bates from Trinidad and Tobago, I am the only daughter of late Mr Michael Bates who was killed in Cote d ivoire where he based as an exporter to our country and he also deals on Gold.

During one of his visit to my country he handed me some documents which he used in depositing the sum of $28.725 ( twenty eight million seven hundred and twenty five thousand US dollars ) security company located in Cote d ivoire West Africa and he used my name as the next of kin to this money
since I am the only issue he has.
My father married my mother as his legitimate wife unfortunately she died when I was only five so my father was forced to have another wife and since this woman came into my fathers life things has not been easy with me, she treats me as a slave and try as much as possible to elininate me if
possible for her as the only child, this pushed my father to keep me away from her to save my life as the only child he has because the woman was unable to produce any for him and to avoid misunderstandings between us.
Why I contacted you was to seek for your urgent assistance to invest this money for me and to bring it out from the security companylocated in Cote d ivoire West Africa.
my father and relation since I was rejected by my father's wife and I have no other person to turn to rather than to seek for an assistance elsewhere. Things has not been easy since I lost my father and I have been managing for the past three years since I lost my father.
If you know that you can be of assistance then let me know so that I can forward my pictures of me, the documents related to the monies.
I will offer you 15% of the total money for assisting me and 5% for any expenses you made while clearing the money from the bank and security company.
I wait for your mail.please try and contact me through my persoanal email address which is annebates_2000@yahoo.co.jp


God bless.
Ms. Anne N. Bates.




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