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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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: miss jen lucas <missjen33333@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:42:03 +0100 (BST)
Subject: From:Miss Jen


CRAVE YOUR INDULGENCE

My Dear in the Lord,
Your first reaction to this mail will be total rejection, scare and may be unbelief, owing largely to the atrocities people committed these days.
But this mail comes from a devastated, sorrowful and emotional ladened
soul that needs compassion from a kind and good spirited person to wipe away
my tears.As an international subject, therefore, with due respect and apology, I want you to handle it very discreetly, confidentially and with utmost secrecy.
For the sake of MY LIFE, because i,m the cardinal focus of this mail,
for my future survival and to avoid embarrassment, I do not want our family name to be advertised or publicly discussed. Please, treat it as such and keep it permanently private. If you would not be in the position to
co-operate, please, forgive me for disturbing your peace. Ignore and delete this
message.
I plead in the name of God.
My purpose of writing to you is to seek your assistance to retrieve my late father's financial assets.
My name is Miss. Jennifer Lucas a Liberian, an orphan of circumstance,i was born by Chief Lucas Tem here in Liberia who was killed by unknown men on a broad daylight as soon as the war took place.
He made it known to me that he had a deposit in abroad on my name of his accrued savings and life insurance gratuity which is SEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS(7.5md), with the custody of a Security Company in ABROAD. Be informed that this company does not know that the box he deposited with them contained raw cash. He only told them that it was personal belongings.
I want you to assist me recover the money
Document proofs are available if necessary.
Use it to secure travelling papers for me to leave Liberia before my parent extended family discover and get me killed as they did to my parent because they very wicked.
The conditions i placed on you is that for assist me 30% of the total sum will go to you.
I will appreciate it the more if you give me your reply no
matter your state of mind, negatively or positively, it is all right by me.

Thanks and God bless.
Miss.Jennifer Lucas
Liberia



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