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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • melisatangolo@rediffmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Miss Melisa Tangolo <melisatangolo2005@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <melisatangolo@rediffmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:52:51 +0000
Subject: Hello Please Reply Urgently



Dear Friend,It is my great pleasure and the trust which I have on you though we have not met before, neither have we seen for the first time, but before I pick up your E-mail contact and write to you I prayed over it that God should direct me to a trustworthy and God fearing partner who will help me to invest this my inheritance money in a good business of your choice. Am Miss Melisa Tangolo from Port-Novo in West Africa 24 years old the only child of Late Mr Amadu Brown Tangolo who was a Cocoa and Timber merchants here. I contacted you for a legal assistance to move a substantial amount to your private company account which my late parents deposited in a fix deposit bank account here in West Africa for investment purpose overseas, Therefore, am writing you to know if you have a professional business idea but you don't have enough money to run the business on your own. so that you can work with me to invest this money in a lucrative business in your country under your supervision i will appreciate you to go through this my message and decide and get back to me immediately. The total amount i intend to transfer to your account for investment is($5.MILLION) which I inherited from my late father i agreed to offer you 20% from the total fund of $5.M for your assistance to invest this said fund on my behalf in a lucrative business in your country: I am waiting to hear from you soonest. Please contact me through the email address below for more confidential to enable us discuss the modalities of this transfer Reply to: ( melisatangolo@rediffmail.com ) Please kindly view my attachment picture below Thanks and God bless you for your kind understanding Best Regards Melissa Tangolo
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