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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:
  • "dear friend" (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.
  • wyoc@usa.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lana Lambert" <l_lana2@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: wyoc@usa.com
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 18:11:39 +0100
Subject: YOU ARE INVITED IN USA YOUTH CONFERENCE.

Dear Friend,

My name is Ms Lana Lambert working with (WORLD YOUTH ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN WELFARE) California, U.S.A. We are organizing a global youths combined conferences taking place from Apr 10th - 15th in Dakar Senegal and Califonia in the United from Apr 18th – 22nd 2007.

I live in my house and working in Shevron oil company.You can stay with me upon your arrival and I will take care of your meal insteady making hotel reservation here in State hence I invited you.The Organisation has maped out (USD5.000.000.00) for each person that represent their country.This fund was donated by Tecnology and oil companies in USA to eliminate hunger in major thired world as you will invest the fund in your own country and aply people who dont have job to work there under you as manager.Procedure will be discuss during the program.

If you are interested to participate and want to represent your country, you may contact the secretariat of the organizing committee for details and information. You should also inform them that you were invited to participate by a friend of yours (Ms Lana Lambert.), who is a member of the American Youths 4 Peace and a staff of (WORLD YOUTH ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN WELFARE)

I believe that we may have the opportunity to meet if you may be willing to participate in this event. You can also inform youths & NGOs in your country about these conferences. The benevolent donors of the Organizing Committee will provide round trip air tickets and accommodation for the period of participants’ stay in the U.S., to all registered participants.

If you are a holder of passport that may require visa to enter the United States you may inform the conference secretariat at the time of registration, as the organizing committee is responsible for all visa arrangements and travel assistances.

Below is the contact address of the conference secretariat:
By 1 800-232-595 or by email: wyoc@usa.com

Hope to meet you in Dakar Senegal.

Sincerely,
Ms Lana Lambert.

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