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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:
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "million dollars" (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.
  • anitafamily0001@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: anitafamily0001@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:33:02 -0700
Subject: CAN YOU HELP?


Hello Dear ,

Please don't be offended or embarrassed of receiving this mail from me.
Before I go on with my proposal, I will first introduce myself as Miss Anita
Dede the only child and daughter of late chief Teko Dede. Am a nationality
of Gambia in West Africa am 17years old girl. I lost my mother in auto crash
when I was ten years old I and my father was residing in Europe before he
got sick and was forced to come back to his country Gambia on 11th of Dec
2004 before he later died.

Before my father's death he has some money he lodged in one of the finance
/security company in Europe, he packaged it in a trunk box and registered it
as our family treasure consignment not money for security reasons, the
amount of the fund he deposited was $Nine Million Six hundred thousand
dollars ($9.6million dollars).

Before my father's death he handed over all the documents that concerns of
the deposited fund in Europe though am presently with the deposit
certificate. secondly, I have contacted the finance company and the said
that am under age that I need a grantor/guardian who will take care of the
consignment for own used before they would be able to release the box to me
right now am writing to you am leaving in quark in Gambia suffering and
hungry is about killing me I have stopped my education due to no money to
take care of school fees.

That is why I write for your assistance, to go and claim the fund and take
good care of me.I will provide to you all the vital papers that will back
you and also appoint an Attorney that would represent you for the
legalization and signing documents for the release of the consignment to
you.

I beg you in the name of our God to assist me, so that I will start living
good as a human being only God will reward you. immediately I receive your
fruitful respond I will send to you the contact address of the finance
/security company contact in Europe
for you to contact the company for the recovering of the fund please
remember not to allow the security company to notice that the content of the
consignment was money so that will not take it from us I wait for your
answer as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely
Anita Dede.
anitafamily0001@yahoo.com

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