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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 beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • erickamonugo@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ericka monugo <erickamonugo1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:32:52 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Dear beloved,


Dear beloved,
I am Ericka Monugo from Sierre Leone.we are an orphan being that we have not met before I know this will sound so surprise to you,well, we lost our parents a couple of months ago.
our father was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting board until his death,
he was assassinated with my mother on their way coming back from work by the rebels following the political uprising in Cote 'D Ivoire.
Before our father's death he made us to understand that he deposited a trunk box here in Cote D'Ivoire that contains the sum of 11.5 million U.SDollars($11.5m) in which he made us to usderstand that the security company are not awear of the contents in the trunk box that he deposited it as family valuables
please we want you to do us a favour to receive this money to your country or any safer place as the beneficiary I and my younger brother kelvin have plans to do an investment in your country, like real estate and industrial production and also to start our education there in your country.This is our reason for writing to you.
Please if you are willing to assist us for what l and younger brother kelvin are going through here are so much for us please we want you to stand for us so that the security company will realease the box to you. please l and my only brother kelvin has agreed with good faith that you will stand for us please indicate your interest in replying soonest. so that we will have every cost to live like other of our friends that we are seeing around us with there parence. please we want you to be our parence so that we will still have a cost to live on this earth. please write back to us in other for us to know your intrest to help us.please write back to this mailbox erickamonugo@yahoo.fr
Thanks and God bless,
Best regards,
Miss.Ericka Amy and Kelvin brother.




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