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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:
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "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.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • bashiru50@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: Bashiru Dada. <bashiru50@zwallet.com>
Reply-To: bashiru50@netscape.net
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:46:21 +0100
Subject: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY.


ATT. President,
I am Barrister Bashiru Dada. a Solicitor and Attorney to CHARLES
TAYLOR.I
have been mandated by Mr Charles Taylor Former Liberian warlord who is
presently on Asylum here in Nigeria.
I am contacting you because he has asked me to look for a very reliable
Foreigner to assist him in
repatriating the money he has stashed away in A bank overseas.
He left behind with the bank exactly thirteen
million US dollars(US$13.000,000). Since he has been granted Asylum by
the
Nigerian Government he has not been allowed to Travel out to any where
because the united nations has been trying to hold him for crimes
against
Humanity hence he is looking for a reliable Foreigner who will help him
out
by claiming the funds on his behalf with the information and Back-up
Documents of the funds.
He has asked me to offer you a total of 19% of the total sum and I am
going
to get the legal aspect of this transaction done and if you know you
are in
a better position to help please do not hesitate to
reach me on this e mail address so that i can give you the next step to
take
towards the actualisation of this mutually beneficial transaction.
Please reply to my private mail box (bashiru50@netscape.net)
I await your response as I ask you to keep this transaction
confidential
even if you are not in a
Position to be of assistance.
Barrister Bashiru Dada.

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