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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:
  • "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 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.
  • missroselina@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: missroselina@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:24:53 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY


*Greetings*



*I am Miss Rose Aka from Bourke Cote D'Ivoire. I am 20 years old, the only
surviving child of my late parents Mr & Mrs Richard Aka.My late father was a
government building contractor and also into real estate management before
his untimely death. I want to ask for your help. I lost my mother at the age
of 10 and my father was poisoned to death during his visit to our home town
for a family meeting. Before the death of my late father in a private
hospital he told me that he deposited the sum of $4.5 Million Dollars in a
private security company here in Cote d'Ivoire.*



*My late father told me in his dieing bed that I should stay away from my
wicked uncle, that it was because of his success in business and his wealth
that his wicked brother planned and poisoned him to death in order to have
al his properties, to prove it all, six months after my Father's death my
wicked uncle sold most of my late father's properties including our family
house. Due to the reason behind my parent's death and the advice my late
father gave me before his death I don't want to stay here again. I
am pleading for your kind assistance to help me transfer this money to your
country so that I will join you to continue my education which is very
important to me you can as well help me in investing the money in a good
and moving business there. Please it is the fear of betrayal from anyone
around me here that confirms my decision to contact a neutral person like
you. I am ready to offer you 25% of the total money for your kind
assistance.*



*If you are ready and sincerely willing to assist me write to me through my
private email id (**missroselina@hotmail.com**) I will give you more
details, upon your immediate. I am left alone now; the deaths of my parents
have made me an orphan, please find a place in your kind heart to help me I
promise never to disappoint you*



*Yours Sincerely Girl,*

*Miss Rose Aka.*

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