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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:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • lawrennelson79@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "LAWRENCE DAVID" <leonard_ngobendel210@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: lawrennelson79@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:41:11 +0000
Subject: MY DEAREST PLEASE REPLY ME AS SOON I NEED THIS TO BE DONE FAST OK.

Dr,Lawrence David
WEST AFRICA DAKAR
TEL;002213222633
Dear Sir,,
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
I am Lawrence David the accountant of African Development Bank OfSenegal (ADBS)There is an online account opened in this bank in 1999 and since the time the money deposited in our bank here nobody has operated this online account After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it would be forfeited fornothing.
The account refare to be Mr Smith Zafer,a foreigner,miner at Kruger Gold Company (KGC).He was as a Geologist by profession and information reach me in my office that the man died on plain crash that occured in liberia 2003 So now there is no other person knows about this account nor got information about the death of the man or any thing concerning it,the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that this Company does know nothing about this account and the money involved is Fifteen mill United States Dollars(US$ 15 Million).
You are the only person that I have contacted in thisBusiness; so Please reply urgently so that I will inform you the nextstep to take immediately. Send also your telephone and fax .Meanwhile, I am contacting you because of the need to involve you beena foreigner with a foreign account as a beneficiary to claim the moneyimmidiately i will send to you all the neccesary document of theaccount so that I will assist the money to be approved fast intour
account .

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because themanagement is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct
information of this account, which I will give to you as soon as youindicate your sincerity to co-operate with me,
IMMIDIATELY.GET BACK TO FAST WITH THIS
<<mailto:ADDRESS//lawrennelson79@yahoo.com>
Lawrence david.

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