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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 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.
  • fwood698@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "fred" <fwood349@excite.com>
Reply-To: fwood698@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:49:32 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Hello






Hello Good day and best wishes in all your endeavors. It gives me great privilege to contact you of a possible chance that has been swimming on my desk in a possibility of soliciting with a foreign partner who is eager to work things out to enhance a great diversity of fund that has been trapped down in our financial institution due to untimely death of Mr. Chiko Dromun from Taiwan, whom we lost due to the tragedy in the tsunami disaster I seek this chance as I am about to retire from the bank to ask for your support to acquit this fund. As the accountant general of the bank, I can be able to provide the necessary documents needed and the proof needed with legally backed for you to be the Next of Kin of the deceased only by your interest. This fund when finally cleared by the bank to you as the Next of Kin and transferred to any of your nominated bank chosen for sharing among us, I will agree to make it a 50/50 share with you, for your support, morally and otherwise, as I
am now on the verge of my retirement from the bank. I strongly look forward to hearing from you as i will make every arrangement of this transaction to be 100% risk free and secured Looking forward to hear from you through my private e-mail: fwood698@yahoo.com Thanks, MR FRED WOOD.

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