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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "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.
  • leoyoung05@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • melvclarke@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Clarke=20Melvin?= <leoyoung05@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: melvclarke@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 08:43:00 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: leoyoung05@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Sir,


With warm heart I offer my friendship, and greetings, and I hope this mail meets you in good time. However strange or surprising this contact might seem to you, as we have not met personally or had any dealings in the past, I humbly ask that you take due consideration of its importance and immense benefit. I also sincerely seek your confidence, as I make these disclosures to you as a person of integrity.



I am Mr. Clarke J. Melvin, a Liberian and former Personal Assistant to Mr. Charles Taylor the Ex –Liberian President. As led by my instinct, I selected your email address from an Internet directory to share this important and beneficial information with you.As a trusted and confidant Personal Assistant to Mr. Charles Taylor, he Charged me with immense secrets relating to his financial wealth spread all over Africa and Western Europe.



My boss Charles Taylor has been in exile in Calabar, Nigeria since 2003 where I was with him until two months ago when he sent me to Accra – Ghana on pretext of seeking a medical attention but the real intention was to come and claim three consignments containing $18,000,000. each before the Nigerian Government decided to Hand Over Charles Taylor to the current Liberian President Ms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who has demanded for my Ex-Boss’ extradition to face war Crimes Tribunal in Sierra Leone for genocide against humanity and as such he escaped and was arrested in Cameron and is now under security custody awaiting trial.

I immediately applied for political asylum here in Ghana and as a result of my new Status as a Fugitive in Ghana and also my name is listed as one of his Aides; I cannot personally claim the funds because of his factor hence I have contacted you to act as go between.



Now I want your co-operation to act as a Beneficiary for these deposited funds so that we can proceed with effecting a change of ownership and empower you to demand for the release of boxes containing the funds to you.



On hearing from you ;accepting to cooperate with me, I will avail more information on how this will be realized.In the event you are not interested to cooperate with me,reply to ( melvclarke@gmail.com ) ; I humbly and kindly request you keep this correspondence strictly confidential and don’t share its contents with any body.


Thank you for your good reasoning,




- Clarke Melvin

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