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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:
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • louisa_chris@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: louisa christopher <l_lschris20@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <louisa_chris@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 20:29:10 +0100
Subject: FROM MISS LOUISA...................CAN I TRUST YOU



Dear Respectful One, I am writing you this letter with due respect and sorrow of tears since we have not met or no each other well I am Miss Louisa Christopher.

I am a 20 Years old Girl from Côte d'Ivoire.Daughter of Mr.Ben Christopher .I have [$100,000,000 million USD] which was made by my Father before He died in oct 2006 which was left in a suspence account in a bank in London.Since I am the only surviving child of my late father and my mother died six months after my father died in Oct 2006.

I seek your assistance and permition to remmit this amount into your account so that I could come to your country for investment and to further my studies. I have accepted to offer you a resonable percentage of the total sum for your desire to assist me.Please reply me if you have good areas where I can invest my fathers fund in your country. Presently I live with a church pastor who is very poor but could only accomodate me.

Reply to this email: louisa_chris@hotmail.com, for security reasons.Thanks
Best Regards.
Miss.Louisa Christopher.
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