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

Fraud email example:

From: "tomkwaku@terra.es" <tomkwaku@terra.es>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:17:45 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Please reply




Hello,

I am contacting you on behalf of Ms Hana Garage.

I am staff of Bank Habitat of Senegal but really wish to help Ms Hana reach out to any humanitarian individual who will represent her claim inheritance worth about $4.5 Million with our bank.

Ms Hana from Darfaur, Sudan, is only 18, but both her parents were killed in the civil war going on in their country.She lives now in refugee camp in Ghana.She suffers in the refugee camp and requires exit permit before access to internet, hence pleaded with me to make initial contact for her.

Please contact her directly when you reply: hanasudan@hotmail.com

Note that i am doing this only on my personal capacity and will not want my bank to know that i am unduelly involved with a customer.Hence you must contact her directly.

Again i repeat her address for your contact: hanasudan@hotmail.com

Please do not reply back to me as i am not likely to check my mail soonest.

Regards,

Thomas Kwaku





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