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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:
  • "trunk boxes" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money)
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Barr.Emile Short" <barr_es05@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: barr_es0011@yahoo.ca
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:21:28 +0000
Subject: From: Emile Short

Greetings to you,
My name is BARISTER EMILE SHORT the attorney of the former president of
Liberia MR CHARLES TAYLOR who is presently in political asylum now in
Calabar, Nigeria.

Before his departure to Nigeria my client handed over to me some documents
containing his deposit in one of the security company here in Ghana, and he
instructed me to move this consignment out of Ghana through a diplomatic
courier to Amsterdam Netherlands.

The consignment contains money worth of ($20.8) Twenty million eight hundred
thousand United States Dollars in the two trunk boxes right now with the
diplomat in Amsterdam. I am now seeking your assistance to help me collect
this consignment out from the diplomat and my client has agreed to
compensate you with percentage of 30%for your noble assistance and 5% for
any expenses that may incur, like you traveling from your country to
Amsterdam to meet the diplomat and also assisting to pay the diplomat
charges and demurrage that might have incurred for the safe keeping in
Amsterdam and the remaining 65% will be for his family and you will also
assist him invest it in a very lucrative business in any where in the
western world.

Your urgent response and assist is highly needed as I am informing you to
keep this deal very confidentially as you have to know that my client is
still in political problem with his country and the country will be
interested to know where my client kept some of his assets. As soon as you
confirm your interest all further information will be passed to you as to
enable you proceed in getting this transaction executed.
Thanks and my kind regards

Yours faithfully

BARR EMILE SHORT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TEL 233-243251307

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