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

Fraud email example:

From: Abdool Zainoul <abdoolzainoul34@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <abdoolzainoul@myway.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:23:19 +0100
Subject: Please Contact ASAP




Hello ,How are you doing today? My name is Abdool Zainoul. I live in Northern England and work in a financial institution here in UK. There is a potential transaction involving huge fund actualization, which I would like us to handle together.Secondly, I hope to relocate and acquire a single family home for my family with a view to establishing over there and I would need your assistance and co-operation in this endeavor. Let me know if I can trust you with this and more information will be sent to you as quickly as possible.Respectfully,Abdool ZainoulEmail:abdoolzainoul@myway.com



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