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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 fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• 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.
  • catholiquegrant019@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • catholiquegrant2008@jmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Xglise Catholique en France" <dangeles@mydestiny.net>
Reply-To: catholiquegrant2008@jmail.co.za
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:22:52 -0000
Subject: Donation Recipient !


Messagio

Église Catholique en France (http://www.cef.fr/) would like to inform you
that you have been picked by the board of trustees as one of the lucky
recipients for a cash Grant/Donation for your own personal,educational,
and business
development.

In the year 1982,they started offering collection for the Sole
objective of human growth, educational and Community development. In
conjuction with the ECOWAS, UNO, and the EU, We are giving out a yearly
donation of
US$850,000.00 each to 100 lucky recipients each year, undermining your
religion.

Kindly contact the Église Catholique en France executive secretary for
further information on the donation.

FULL NAMES:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
COUNTRY:
SEX: ........
DATE OF BIRTH:
MARITAL STATUS:
OCCUPATION:
RELIGON:
PHONE NUMBER:

Rev.Silvian Dechamps
Email:catholiquegrant019@hotmail.com
:catholiquegrant2008@jmail.co.za

Please endeavour to quote your Qualification numbers (CEF-080-2998-2996).

Regards,
Rev.Santini Benzima.

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