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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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Tricia Bangura" <tricia_banky@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:54:23 +0000
Subject: FOR INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE





Tricia Bangura
Dakar Senegal, Refugee Camp,
West Africa.


Hello My Dear,
I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have
not known or meet ourselves befor.Please I am asking for your assistance after
I have gone through a profile that speaks good of you. I want to find out if it's
possible for you to deal with individual as to investment. My dear i will be so
glad if you can allow me and lead me to the right channel towards your assistance
to my situation now.I will make my proposal well known to you. I would like to use
this opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am Miss Tricia Bangura, A 25yer old
girl from Liberia in west Africa,i am a daughter of late Dr,Smith Bangura.

My father Dr Smith was the personal advicer to the former head of state president
Charles Taylor who is now in exile, before the rebels attacked our house one early
morning killing my mother and my father It was only me that is alive now, and i
managed to make my way to near by country where i am staying as a refugee now.

The main reason why I am contacting you now is to seek your assistance in the area
of my future investment and also to help me to transfer the money that he deposited
in security company over to your possession. the amount is (US5.3 Million dollars)
he made this deposit some years back,the money was deposited as a family tresure
which i am the nest of kin.


Please i am asking you to stand on my behalf as my partner to claim the money out
from the security company and transferd it into your possition . I have made up my
mind to offer you 25%of the total money, while the remaining will go into a productive
business for me, As I have mention earlier I will make the procedure to this
transaction to be well know to you and i will give you the contact of the security
company so that you will contact them for more verification as soon as you received
this letter,i will be waiting to hear from you.

yours Tricia
regards,to you.







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