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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.
  • mrsmary_jones7777@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "" <adimmo@iol.cz>
Reply-To: mrsmaryjones202@live.com
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:20:13 GMT
Subject: CHARITY WORK




From: Mrs Mary Jones of Kuwait
RE: Use the Funds for the Less privileged.
I am the above named person from Kuwait. I am married to Dr. Harry Jones who worked with Kuwait Embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2000.
Can you handle a CHARITY WORK of $8.6Million (Eight Million six hundred thousand U.S.Dollars) with a finance/security company in Europe?.Get back to me if you are interested.and i will issue you a Letter of Authority that will empower you as the original beneficiary of this fund.Contact me with my most private EMAIL.. It is my last wish to see this money distributed to victims of HIV/aids,charities donations,Orphans and other needy persons in your country.
Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them anymore.send me mail to my personal
e-mail address.
mrsmary_jones7777@myway.com
with best of regards

Mrs Mary Jones.

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