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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.
  • kt_katanga55@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "katerine katanga" <kt657@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kate_katanga33@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:27:14 +0400
Subject: urgent business notice.

Dear Director,

It's my pleasure to mail you today. I'm writing to you regards some investment in your country. How are work and your family? Well I know this mail would come to u as a surprise but I got your contact through business directory.
Then I see it as a pleasure to mail and seek for your help and advice on how I can invest out there into these investments like factories, school, real estates, or hotels any of the above, which will be more profitable in your country.
As a mother with my two lovely kids my late husband pass away two years back, the funds that he deposited before his untimely death I need your assistance to help me transfer the funds and it invest into a lucrative business in your country so that it can brings incomes for my children’s education and bright future.
If you are able to help us let me know your conditions or how u wishes to assist me. Reply me to ( kt_katanga55@yahoo.com <http://us.f574.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=kt_katanga55@yahoo.com> )
I'm waiting to read from you.
Mrs. Kate Katanga

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