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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Sherifatu Nkansah" <missherifatu_nkansah@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: sherifatunkansah@gawab.com
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:12:49 +0000
Subject: PEACE BE WITH YOU.

DEAR SIR/MADAM,

I AM MISS.SHERIFATU NKANSAH ADORTEY, THE FIRST DAUGHTER OF LATE HON.J. N.
ADORTEY, FORMER CHIEF PROTOCAL AND LOGISTICS OFFICER TO FORMER PRESIDENT
OF LIBERIA MR.CHARLES TAYLOR. MY LATE PARENTS WERE MURDERED ON THE 24TH OF
MARCH 2002 BY THE NOTHERN PEOPLES FRONT WHO BELIEVED THAT MY DAD WAS A BACK
BONE TO THE THEN PRESIDENT.
AS A RESULT OF THE UGLY INCIDENT I AND MY TWO BROTHERS ARE TOOK REFUGE HERE
IN GHANA.

SINCE AFTER MY PARENTS DEATH, WE HAVE NOT FIND JOY AND COMFORT AS MY RELATIVES
TOOK AWAY ALL THAT OUR PARENTS LEFT BEHIND IN THE NAME OF TRADITION AND WAR
THAT SCARED US AWAY. WHAT A TRAIT THAT TRADITION AND WAR HAVE REMAINED TO
OUR LIVES BUT NEVER THE LESS, WE HAVE TO SURVIVE AND THAT IS WHY I DROPED
FROM SCHOOL TO DO SOME ODD JOBS TO FEED MY YOUNGER ONE'S YET IT HAS NOT BEEN
ALL THAT EASY FOR ME AS I BEEN MOLLESTED SEXUALLY MANY TIMES. AND ALL MY
EFFORT TO REACH THE FORMER PRESIDENT FOR ASSISTANCE DID NOT YEILD GOOD RESULT
BECAUSE HE WAS OUTSTED INTO EXILE FEW YEARS BACK.

ACTUALLY, OUR PEOPLE HAVE STARTED RETURNING TO LIBERIA BUT MY YOUNGER ONES
CANNOT HEAR THAT AS THEY SAID THAT THEY CAN'T BEAR SEE OUR UNCLES AND AUNTIES
ENJOYING OUR HERITAGE WITH THIER KIDS WHILE WE ARE SUFFERING. INSTEAD THEY
ARE BENT ON TRAVELLING EITHER TO EUROPE OR AMERICA AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR
ME TO AFFORD THE MONEY THAT CAN BEAR THE COST OF TRAVELLING TO ANY OF THESE
OVERSEA COUNTRIES.

LAST WEEK ONE OF MY BROTHERS CONTACTED ONE OF OUR LATE FATHERS LAWYER FRIEND
BASED IN THE CAPITAL CITY MONROVIA FOR AN ASSITANCE,BUT THIS MAN WHO HAVE
HIS TWO LEGS AMPUTATED AS A RESULT OF WAR OFFERED NOTHING TO US THAN RELEASING
INFORMATION TO THE DOCUMENTS THAT OUR DAD LEFT WITH HIM KNOWING WELL THE
TRADITION OF OUR PEOPLE. THE INFORMATION IS THAT MY DAD DEPOSITED SOME CONSIGNMENTS
WITH A SECURITY COMPANY IN GHANA AND THESE CONSIGNMENTS CONTAIN VALUABLES
WHORT MILLIONS OF UNITED STATES DOLLARS.

CONSIGNMENT NO.LB1448BZ WITH SECURITY CODE XXL/12P/001.CONTAINING $15.8M
US DOLLARS CONSIGNMENT NO.LB1447BZ WITH SECURITY CODE XXL/12P/002. CONTAINING
$14.5M US DOLLARS.

YOU MAY SEE THESE AS A RELIEF TO OUR PROBLEMS BUT THAT IS FAR FROM IT AS
MY FATHERS FRIEND TOLD US THAT WE CAN NOT CLAIM THE CONSIGNMENTS ON OUR OWN
AS WE ARE UNDER AGED AND ALSO THAT THE CONSIGNMENTS WERE DEPOSITED WITH THE
NAME OF A FOREIGNER AS THE BENEFICIARY. THESE ARE THE RESTRICTIONS THAT WE
ARE FACING AND WE WERE ADVISED BY OUR DADS FRIEND TO SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE
AND TRUSTWORTHY FOREIGNER WHO WILL HELP US CLAIM OUT THOSE CONSIGNMENTS.


IT IS BASED ON THIS ADVICE THAT WE ARE WRITTING TO BEG FOR YOUR ASSITANCE
IN HELPING US CLAIM OUT THIS CONSIGNMENTS WHILE WE ARE PROMISING TO REWARD
YOU WITH 30% OF THE TOTAL VALUE. I AM CONTACTING YOU BELIEVING THAT WITH
YOUR DIVINE ASSISTANCE WE MUST SURELY EXCEL AND ENJOY THE FRUIT OF OUR PARENTS
LABOUR SOONEST SINCE THE GOOD MAN IS A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS FOR THE UPRIGHT.


OUR PRAYERS IS THAT GOD WILL TOUCH YOUR HEART TO CONSIDER HELPING THE NEEDY
PERSONS LIKE US AND MAY YOU REMAIN BLESSED IF YOU SINCERELY CONSIDER OUR
HUMBLE REQUEST.

THANKS FOR YOUR KIND UNDERSTANDING AS WE AWAIT YOUR CO-OPERATION.

YOUR'S FAITHFULLY,

MISS.SHERIFATU NKANSAH ADORTEY.

___________________________________________________________

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