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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)
  • "transfer into your account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • mrsglade_d06@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS GLADE DIKE" <dike_mrsg@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsglade_d06@yahoo.de
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:23:51 +0100
Subject: PLEASE CAN I TRUST YOU

Dear Friend,

How are you together with your family today.I pray God Almight this message
reaches you in wonderful spirit.How are you and your family.I am Mrs.Glade
Dike,from Angola.l got your contact and profle W.W.W and coupled with the
information i gathered about you from the external trade department of my
country chamber of commerce and industry in my country. There is an
imformation I would like you to keep very confidential.

There is sum ammount of money my late Husband UNITA Rebel leader Jonas
Malheiro.Dike deposited in a Bank in AFRICA under a suspense account for
safe keeping Before he was killed by Angolan Millitary force.The squable
happened as over the issue of mineral and allocatio resource of diamond
using his power and influence to smuggled diamond to the neighbouring
country in exchanged for money and other valuable asset. My late husband
married three wives.I am the second wife.I will not be able to give you the
full details that led to that urgly incidents.Presently i am staying in
nigeria,just to save my life,with my three children.

The money in question,is $10,500,000.00 U.S.Dollars.What I would want you to
do,is to assits me to get the fund transfer into your account in your
country for investment prior to your advise,and we shall open a small
account in a Bank on your name, and transfer the money to your
country,through the account.I will give you the 20% of the money for your
assitance. There is no risk in this transaction.

I will use the remain balance of the money for an investiment in your
country for the future of my children.If you are intrested, and can maintain
the very confidential of this transaction,you e-mail me immediately through
my email address for more clearification, and also note that I am a refugees
in nigeria,becuase of the killing of my late husband,and the civil war going
on in our country.kindly reply to my email address.I can speak little
english,and my son also speaks english very well.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Atten:Please reply me asap at this my private email box only:(or)
mrsglade_d06@yahoo.de
_______________________________________________________________________________

Thank you very much.

Mrs. Glade Dike,
AWAITING FOR YOUR RESPONS

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