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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic immunity"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "ich habe eine neue e-mail-adresse!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "diplomatic immunity" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (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.
  • ifobodofedlaw@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • barristerifobodo@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?ifobodo=20fedlaw?= <ifobodofedlaw@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: barristerifobodo@sify.com
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:01:27 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: ASSISTANCE NEEDED


Ich habe eine neue E-Mail-Adresse!Ich bin jetzt unter folgender E-Mail-Adresse zu erreichen: ifobodofedlaw@yahoo.de







FROM THE DESK OF BARRISTER

IFOBODO OBOCHA CHAMBERS,LEGAL

PRACTITIONER AND PUBLIC NOTARY <br>
HIGH COURT REPRESENTATIVE

SUITE 202 OMEGA PLAZA, APAPA

LAGOS -NIGERIA.

Please Reply To This Email:(barristerifobodo@sify.com)


Dear Friend,

how are you today?

i hope this message will reach you in the best of health and receive your prompt attention even as we have not had any corespondence before.i got your address through my private search for a reliable,trustworthy and capable hand to handle a transaction of this magnitude. i am soliciting for your assistance to secure us$45.3 million into a personal account.please i humble stress the confidentiality of the transaction and assures its geneuity as i believe it is life time opportunity for us.


I am Barrister Ifobodo Obocha, a political adviser on legal matter to President Charles Taylor, the embattled President of Liberia. as a result of the crisis/civil war in liberia, the american president George w. bush asked President Charles Taylor to leave liberia before he could send peacekeeping force to liberia.The President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo visited liberia to offer charles Taylor political asylum and after the meeting of ecowas heads of states in Ghana, President Taylor was asked to leave liberia before the arrival of peace keeping force from Nigeria.


Finally, as a result of this event, the sum of ($45.3m) fourty-five million three hundred thousand united states dollars was moved to Nigeria by diplomatic immunity and deposited in minting and printing security company of Nigeria for the safe keeping of his family and investment after the situation in liberia might have brought to calm which we are seeking for your assistance and permission to remit this said sum into your account. your commission will be 3o% of the total sum or could be negotiable, while 10% will be use for any expence procure during this transaction. please notify me on your acceptance to carry out this transaction through my private email: (barristerifobodo@sify.com) for further details on the receipt of this message. i shall inform you of the modalities to arrange on how the money will be transfer to your account.Thanks for your co-operation.


Yours Faithfully,


Barrister Ifobodo Obocha

- ifobodo fedlaw

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