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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:
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • alice_johnson20042005@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "alice johnson" <alicejohnson02@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 07:19:13 +0000
Subject: PLS HELP ME AND MY SON

PLEASE ASSIST THE NEEDY I want to crave your indulgence in reading through
this mail to understand my predicament.I am Mrs Alice johnson, a Liberia
refugee currently residing at the refugee camp here in Accra-Ghana. All hope
of having a better future was shattered by the war in Liberia, I and my son
being the only surviving family of a gold merchant in liberia will were
left with no alternative than to flee to Ghana. Please I am contacting you
today for you to extend a hand of fellowship to poor victims of
circumstance. I want you to consider affecting my life and that of my son.
All hopes was lost until recently when my late Husband Attorney visited the
refugee camp and I was fortunate to meet him. He had come searching for us
at the camp to pass on certain information that will affect our existence.
He said my late Husband had deposited Eight million united state dollars
($8m) in a trunk of boxes/gold and diamond with a Security Company here in
Ghana stating my son as the Beneficiary in event of his death.Considering
his relationship with my late Husband, he has since handed these documents
to me and I have equally gone to verify these claims hence I am contacting
you to assist me in retrieving these consignments. Please, what I actually
want from you now is to assist me in retrieving and receiving these
consignments on my behalf because I cannot handle this as a result of my
current situation. I have not disclosed this to anyone before contacting you
hence I want you to kindly keep this as confidential.I beg you in the name
of God not to underestimate my claims and request because I shall endeavor
to furnish you with the necessary documents.Please be kind enough to send me
an email cos for now i dont have a phone. Thank you very much and God shall
increase you and your family more abundantly.


BELOW IS MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION: alice_johnson20042005@yahoo.com

Best Regards
Mrs Alice Johnson.
(for the family)


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