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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "liberia" (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.
  • joshuajudy73@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: JOSHUA JUDITH <jddd02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <joshuajudy73@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:03:06 +0000
Subject: From Judith and Joshua



Dear Sir/Ma,

From Judith and Joshua,

Greetings and compliment of the day.With due respect and a sincere heart let me formal explicite introduction of my self and my aim of contacting you in particular.


My name is Joshua and Judith Taylor and we are here in Benin Republic with my junior sister judith and we are from the family of formal president Charles Taylor of Liberian west africa but here in Benin Republic we entered as a result of the resent war in my country which lead to the death of my father and mother living me and judith alone on earth. And here in Benin republic we entered as a refugee. Am still a student studying engineering and Judith medicine before the out break of the war. Am 25 years of age and judith is 23.Please we need your assistance and help and that is why we are writing you now. Before the death of my father, he used my name to deposit the fund as the next of kin in a financial institution here in Benin, and the institution have affiliates in Europe and USA. The total amount deposited is valued $8. 7million dollars.

Please we need your help to invest the fund for us and we are ready to offer you 30% of the total sum. if u are interested to help us kindly contact us by email: (joshuajudy73@yahoo.fr) so that we will give you more details on how the fund will get to your account for the investment project.

Note; we will never contact any body untill we hear from you.

Thanks and God bless you.
Joshua and Judith
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