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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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • omarpriscamami_mi@yahoo.com.au

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?omar=20Prisca?= <omarpriscamami_mi@yahoo.com.au>
Reply-To: priscaomar_p1@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 13:51:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: complement from omar


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: omarpriscamami_mi@yahoo.com.au



- Top of the day, I hope that this piece of mail will reach you in good manners and in a perfect healthy condition ? Please, I am sorry to disturb you with my problems and I know that it's not by mistake that I am contacting you but by the special grace of God. I am Omar Prisca, 17years old and the only child of my late parents late {Chief and Mrs. Gabriel Omar} My mother died when i was a baby, and My father established his cocoa and gold business merchant before he died shortly of heart attack. His death has now made me an orphan and i am exposed to danger. Before the unfortunate death of my father,he told me about some deposit he made with some security vault worth of a 500 Kilos of Gold Dust and Cash money which he deposited as a family treausres. Since the death of my father, my uncles have sent me out of the house and collected most of my late fathers properties except this deposit that they do not know about, they said that i am a !
female child and for that reason according to our tradition i do not have right to family entitlement. Please,i want you to help me and stand as my foreign guardian to receive the deposit,your involvement is highly rated as a legal fact because according to the deposit agreement signed by my late father,which states that before i can come for the claim i must present a foreign guardian who will stand to help me ,and the most reason why my late father did it was a result of my age. My late father,wanted to make use of the money to develop his new farm land here which planed to turn to a cocoa farm.if you are touched to help a orphan like me,please kindly respond back with your line of interest so that i can give you more hints to on how to retreive the deposit from the security vualt. Expecting your soonest response. Thank you and God bless. Prisca Omar

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