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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • lind2dickson@yahoo.co.nz (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Linda" <lindadickson@yahoo.co.nz> (may be fake)
Reply-To: linda2dickson@yahoo.co.nz
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:53:19 +0000
Subject: Thanks With Due Respect.

My Dearest One,

How are you over there?. As for me,i am fine here in Daker
Senegal. My name is Miss Linda Dickson, from Liberia in west Africa presently residing in the church camp here in Dakar due to the civil war going on in my country.

My late father Dr Patrick Dickson, was the personal advicer to the former head of state before the rebels attacked my house one early morning killing my Brothers and my father. It is only my Mother and me that is alive now and we managed to make our way to near by country Senegal where we are living now.

I would like to know more about you. Your likes and dislikes,your hobbies and what you are doing presently.I will tell you more about myself in my next mail. I attach here my picture for you, though i am not all that photogenic.

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.

I needed someone like a Godfather, Godmother and Helper to me and my Mother. email me on our private email, lind2dickson@yahoo.co.nz. I shall for your mail so that i will tell you more about myself.

Thanks with due respect.
Miss Linda

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