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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:
  • "trunk box" (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.
  • elizabethbayan@yahoo.com.ph (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: elzabeth noel <mrselizabethnoel1@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:07:54 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Hello One,


Hello One,
PLEASE WRITE ME DIRECT ON THISMAIL elizabethbayan@yahoo.com.ph
My name is Elizabeth D.Tinambacan,The wife of Rev. Jemias Tinambacan who was the Deputy Secretary General of Bayan Muna party-list group in Southern Tagalog.who is recently attack and killed in philippine on the 27 may 2006.

Before my late husband was killed,I inherited sum total of ($14,000.000 USD. Fourteen Million USDollars) from some cocoa business import we made with my late husband, this money which i put in a metallic trunk box and deposited it in a security and finance company in abroad. This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a family treasure. This means that the security company does not know the content of this trunk box. Since the death of my late husband,the philippine government has blocked me and my late husband account and also my late husband family has succeed in collecting from me all the properties of my late husband.trying to leave me with nothing based on there persinal intrest.

I am contacting you because I want you to help me in securing the money in the vault by paying only the courier diplomatic shipment charges to your country for the future of our children.since my late husband family made it impossible for me to move out of the house and they are monitoring my room phone call through the house extentions.I hope to trust you as who will not sit on this money when you claim it.i made up my mind to give you 15% of the total money for your help ,after you have secured the box for my kids future. Hopping to hear from you.
on elizabethbayan@yahoo.com.ph
Elizabeth D. Tinambacan


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