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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.
  • snvaye2005@yahoo.com
  • snvaye2005@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: SUSANNE N.VAYE <susane01@walla.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:31:22 +0200
Subject: YOU ARE MY BEST FRIEND (THIS IS NOT SPAM) PLEASE URGENTLY REPLY.


Greetings from (Susanne) a crying bittered heart seeking for your help.
Kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you,as am most sure that you will truely take your time to read my mail with best of hope that you will have a very kind heart so full of consciences and love considering human nature to be able to understand my situation and help me find a solution over this incidence,because you seem to be my last hope for now.
I believe you are a highly respected personality considering a careful research which i have been able to make inrespect to your kind of person,before i decided to entrust this transactions and database in your country into your hands which i believe you will not betray my trust and confidence already repossed on you.
Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events and fragile political situation in Liberia but it has formed consistent headlines in the CNN, BBC news bulletins.
My name is MRS.SUSANE NUHAN VAYE from Liberia,a Country in West
Africa.My Husband is Issac Nuhan Vaye, Deputy Minister of Public Works,Liberia.
My Husband was falsely accused of plotting to remove the then PRESIDENT
OF LIBERIA (CHARLES TAYLOR) from office. Without trial, Charles Taylor killed him. You can verify this from your country. You can also check in some of the international newspapers
posted in the web sites below:
(i) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-07-15-liberia_x.htm
(ii)http://www.unwire.org/UNWire/20030716/449_6621.asp
Before my husband was killed, he moved out the sum of $21.7million(Twenty One Million Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars) through a diplomatic means, and deposited it with a Security Company overseas.
All that is needed is for you to agree in helping me then i shall give you vivid details through my lawyer to instruct the company to transfer the fund to your account, I will renumerate you with 20% of this amount at the end, but most of all i solicit your trust in this transaction although i know this sounds too good to be true,but believe me,that you shall not in anyway be expossed to danger or ridicule because the continued existence of my family solely depends on this fund and my ability to get a reliable partner who will truely assist me in securing the money and keeping it in safe hands before it will be discovered and confisticated by the authorities of my country.
I have been confined only to our country home and apartment for the time being and all my calls are monitored.Please I will advise you to contact me for now only through my personal email address for confidential reasons(SNVAYE2005@YAHOO.COM).
Kindly include your private telephone and fax numbers/residential address where you can always be reached if you are in the need to help me,to enable me send you detail information and documents to you.
Once more,i will appreciate you keep this information and transaction strictly confidential even if you are not interested to save me from the risk of running into any logistics as this the only way i can cry out secretly to the world for help believing that one reasonable,responsible and kind hearted christian or devote muslism will sincerly help rescue my situation.
MAY GOD/ALLAH BLESS YOU.
Mrs Susane Vaye.
SNVAYE2005@YAHOO.COM

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