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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: zanko kwame <zmkk1974@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 16:53:35 -0800 (PST)
Subject: your asisstance!!!


GOOD DAY .
I wish to beg your assistance. I am Kenneth williams Jr. I hail from Liberia, but currently residing in Accra, Ghana. My kid sister and I were helped to Ghana by a church priest after our parents were killed in April, 1999 by rebel soldiers that invaded our home in Morovia, Liberia during the civil war. My late father was then the chief protocol officer to the former Liberian President, Charles Taylor who is now in self exile in south east Nigeria.
Consequent upon the unfortunate incident, our education was halted and defered. But thank God for a mesiah who has volunteered to help see to the copletion of our senior secondary education.
However, my main purpose of seeking your help is that I came accross a Deposit Certificate of US$7,400,000:00 in my mother box while looking for our Junion Secondary School Certificate. I have been to the Security Company with the Certicicate was confirmed. Though the Director of the Securit Company.I need a foreign trustee to stand as the beneficiary for the consignment to be cleared.
Now, the problem is that I know no trusted or reliable foreigner who can stand as trustee and beneficiary of the deposited consignment. It is in view of this that I am reaching you with hope you would be of assistance to us.
I count on you for assistance either moral or ortherwise. The Deposit Certificate will be sent to you for verification if you accept to help us out..
Thanks and God bless in anticipation of your acceoptance to help.
Your Faithfully,
Master Kenneth williams Jr.



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