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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 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.
  • whso.secretary@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:16:22 -0700
Subject: INVITATION!!!!!!!!!


Dear friend,

My name is Tiffany Luckcas, a staff of (WORLD HUMANITARIAN SERVICE
ORGANIZATIONS) Washington U.S.A. We are organizing a global combined
conferences taking place from 2nd - 5th December 2008 at Washington in the
United States and in, Dakar Senegal from 9th -12th December 2008.

In our request to invite people from various countries around the world, I
went in search of e-mails on the web site as a means of contacting youths
and organizations As a result, I picked your e-mail from an N.G.O`s website.
If you are interested to participate and want to represent your country, you
may contact the secretariat of the organizing committee for details and
information.

Inform them that you were invited to participate by a friend of yours
(Tiffany Luckcas), who is a member of the International Committee, of the
Red Cross and a staff of (WORLD HUMANITARIAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS). I
believe that we may have the opportunity to meet if you may be willing to
participate in this event. The benevolent donors from across the world and
the Organizing Committee will provide round trip air tickets and
accommodation for the period of participants? Stay in the U.S., to all
registered participants.

If you are a holder of passport that may require visa to enter the United
States you may inform the conference secretariat at the time of
registration, as the organizing committee is responsible for all visa
arrangements and travel assistances.

Below is the contact address of the conference secretariat .By email:
whso.secretary@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Tiffany Luckcas

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