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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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.
  • address.fustina_williams@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "fustina williams" <f_ustina12@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: fustina_williams@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:39:30 +0000
Subject: MY NAME IS FUSTINA WILLIAMS,

MAY THE BLESSING OF GOD BE UPON YOU, MY NAME IS FUSTINA WILLIAMS, I WAS
BROUGHT UP IN CHRISTIAN HOME.I WRITE IN RESPECT OF MY SEARCH SEEKING FOR A
RELIABLE CHRISTIAN PRACTITIONALS WHO CAN BE TRUSTWORTHY TO RECEIVE MY LATE
FATHERS FUND ( ONE MILLION NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES
DOLLARS)($1,900,000,00,)WHICH HE DEPOSITED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL
BANK P.L.C (I.C.B)HERE IN GHANA,THIS FUND WAS KEPT BY MY LATE FATHER
(WILLIAMS MAKINWAN) WHO WAS AN EXPORTER OF (COCOA AND GOLD)FROM GHANA TO
MANY COUNTRY IN AFRICA. AND ALL OVER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES HE KEPT THE MONEY
FOR A LUCRATIVE INVESTMENT ABROAD ON MY BEHALF BEFORE HIS DEATH.IF YOU KNOW
THAT YOU CAN RECEIVE THIS MONEY IN YOUR COUNTRY FOR A LUCRATIVE INVESTMENT
IN YOUR COUNTRY PLEASE SEND YOUR PRIVATE CONTACT INFORMATIONS,I AM RECEDING
HERE NOW AS A REFUGEE IN THIS REFUGEE CAMP,WE ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO GO OUT
TIMES IN A WEEK.ITS JUST LIKE ONE STAYING IN THE PRISON AND I HOPE BY THE
GRACE OF GODS I WILL COME OUT SOON. I DON'T HAVE ANY RELATIVES NOW WHOM I
CAN GO TO ALL MY RELATIVES RAN AWAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WAR


YOUR COMMISSION WOULD BE (30%)
MY PRIVACY Email Address.fustina_williams@yahoo.com
NOTE: THAT A NEGOTIABLE PERCENTAGE WILL BE OFFERED TO YOU.
MY PROFILE NAME: FUSTINA WILLIAMS
COUNTRY:FROM IVORY COAST BUT NOW IN GHANA DUE TO CRISIS IN Ivory Coast in
west Africa,
AGE: 22 PURPOSES: LOOKING FOR A RELIABLE PERSON WHO CAN ASSIST ME TO INVEST
MY FUND IN HIS COUNTRY.
RELIGION: CHRISTIAN.
EMAIL; you can visit this website for more information about my country
Ivory Coast in west Africa,
http://www.unicefusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=duLRI8O0H&b=50755

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