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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:
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • norahanoun1@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: norah anoun <victory_an20@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <norahanoun@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 20:02:35 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP



PERSONAL CONFIDENTIAL LETTER FOR BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP AND ASSISTANCE

My Dear Choosing Friend,


Pardon me if my letter did not meet you in good time and faith.I know that this kind of letter may be a surprise to you as you received it from an unknown person but i believe is God's time for we to know each other as you know that with God all things are possible, With due respect of humanity i crave your indulgence to attend to this my letter to you today with your open minded spirit in assisting me and my little son to a place of our refuge by re-transiting of our fund and gold which i want to outline to you below ,Firstly,my name is Mrs Norah Anoun a serrie-Leonie but i' m to you from( Cotonou Benin Republic in Africa), I believe by God's grace I got your contact in confidence After asking for God's directions over this matter,Despite, I never disclose why I needed your contact to any body except as i am writing you now. I wish to know if you can assist us ;ie; me and my little son, by removing and handling both our fund of $7.8Million (Seven million and Eight hundred thousand U.S. Dollars ) and Gold deposited by my late husband along side with the fund i mentioned above so that both of us will come to your country to invest it either in your line of business or any other line that you will encourage us to invest the money.You will be rewarded bountifully for assisting us by given you 25% of total of the fund and gold as soon as the fund reach your country and we come over to meet you.The fund and gold is still in the finance company in Benin,where my late husband deposited it for safe keeping. One more thing, my husband did not disclosed the content to the finance company, he only declared it as "personal/family treasure"because he do not want the company to know what is inside the boxes. I know that since you can be able to help us get the fund and the gold to your country you will know some more better things me and my son could do with the fund that will establish us fine over there in your country.
I and my son will love if we will invest our fund in your business and you help us look for a buyer of gold over there, because we do not know any body overseas,and we don' t want to do anything here in Africa. I and my son are in need of a God fearing person who will assist us very well in this fund that we are about to invest overseas, where we will invest it properly with the person's advice.Actually I do not want involvement of any African because of our safety, they killed my husband because of his money and position in our place serrie-Leone.If you can assist us receive this fund, kindly send to me your phone number with fax,and your full name and address for us to get you approved as our beneficiary,because we want to finalize this in five or six days from today. Please let me know if you are interested to assist us so that I will send to you phone number of my son for you to call him and discuss on the percentage if you find out that the percentage is not OK for your assistance, we will offer you also send you the deposit documents of this fund which my late husband deposited the with the finance company.

Hope to receive your reply today. Reply to my private email; norahanoun1@yahoo.fr

Yours faithfully,
From Mrs Norah.
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