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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:

• 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.

Fraud email example:

From: "From Tony Carew" <tonycarew2@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: tonycarew2@myway.com
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:43:48 +0000
Subject: Vrey Urgent Massage,



Dear Friend
My name is Tony carew 24 years old the only son of the former minister of defence,Though we don't know each other before,but i believe that relationship and communication with someone you never meet before starts a day.

My Late father Dr. Carew Joseph Work under Joe C. Blell, Vice Defence Minister of Sierra Leone before he was assassinated by unknown person, There is this amount of Ten million US dollar($5M) which my late father deposited in one of the Security Company in Dakar-senegal West Africa, With the trust i have in God,i decided to contact you to help me retrieve this money from the Security Company so we can invest it in any profitable investment in your country.

If you can be of a great help to me,i will be please to offer you ten percent of the total money after the money has been retrieved from the security company to you in your country and you will arrange for my coming to meet you in your country to further my education.I will be waiting to hear from you so that i will give you more detail.
send your telephone Number in your reply

Thanks and God bless you.
Dr Tony Carew

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