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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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• 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: P Pelely <paulpelely@sify.com>
Reply-To: paulpelely@mail2world.com
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 13:29:42 +0400
Subject: GREETINGS TO YOU


Dear,
compliments of the moment, my name is Prince Paul Pelely, former personal aid to
ex-president of Liberia ,Charles Taylor, currently living in assylum in a neighouring
west African country.As the personal aid to the ex-president of Liberia, there is a fund lodged
with a financial house somewhere in abroad and by the reason of my relationship with the
then Government in power.
I was instrumental to this lodgement. Unfortunately, there is every need to change the
status of these funds for safety reasons. I am soliciting for your cooperation to help
me change the deposit status of this fund. The principal sum here is $8.5M.
This transaction is my reason for contacting you at this time. I may not know you before
now, but i could be lucky to meet in you, someone who will not take advantage of the
circumstances on the ground to cheat.
When this money is successfully claimed, there could be equally the need for you to
assist me in investing part of the money in capital projects as i will not want to keep
saving it with financial or security houses.
As a matter of fact, you can rest assured that it will be worth all your effort. I have
every information that will arm you in the event that you want to assist me in
safeguarding this money. I am only appealing to you.
I would beg of you not to reply this mail if you are not someone i could accomplish this
with. The prevailing situation makes it practically impossible for me to accomplish this
personally, hence my contacting you and the earlier we remove it from its initial
deposit status, the better for us. I wish you are a very kind and honest person.
When i have your expressed and genuine interest to assist me in this transaction,
i shall with out hesitstion funish you with all the necessary information you may need
to carry it out. And when i feel safe with you, we could do more business. We shall talk
of your percentage as we move on.And lastly, we shall restrict this transaction via e-mail
for security reasons, but you could let me have your phone numbers so that at the slightest
opportunity i have, i could give you a call at least to know you better,and explain more
orally to you.
Thanks in anticipation.
Yours sincerel
Paul Pelely

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