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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk boxes" (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)
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "million 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)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "JEWEL TAYLOR" <jeweljnt@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jeweltaylor230@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:03:57 +0100
Subject: URGENT REPLY



GOOD DAY,
I am Mrs Jewel Taylor the wife of Charles Taylor the ex- president of Liberia which is one of the richest Gold mining country in West Africa. My husband was forced out of power by the United Nations peace keeping force due to the long lasting war in Liberia and the neighbouring country Sierra Lone .We had to seek asylum in Nigeria which is another west African country by the agreement of United Nations and president of Nigeria. Please view the links below and understand what I mean better.
<<<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/11/taylor.warcrimes/index.html>>>
<<<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/11/liberia.1300/index.html>
This sad story continued again sometime in March this year when the same president of Nigeria that is keeping us in asylum in his country called my husband on the telephone to find a means and leave the country because the United State Government is insisting that he bring him out to them before they will be able to cancel their debt in the world bank.In this suitation my husband decided that we should leave the country without knowing that they have planed with the War tribunal to arrest him on leaving the country.
On the 30th of March this year my husband was arrested and took to the war crime tribunal court in Serria Lone where they are keeping him in detention up till now .
Please view the BBC link below to understand it better.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4345120.stm>
However I was in the detention camp where my husband is kept under supervised custody yesterday and he gave me your contact details to send this email to you since he said has been going through a lot of peoples profile on the internet but it was your own that interest him most as the person that can handle this our only life remaining money that is we are planning to start life again if eventually my husband comes out of this war crime case.
In his words he said that (Please Mr Charles Se I need your assistance in transferring the fund derived from gold excesses into your into your nominated bank account ,the reason is that the world bank/the war crime tribunal has seized all my life assets and money worth up to hundred billions of United States Dollars both here and my foreign accounts in over seas has all been seized. From your profile I know and believe that you will not betray my trust in you and I believe your ability to handle such big funds that I will am going to put under your total care till whenever I am out from here. I have given my lovely wife to contact my attorney who will change the documents of the funds in your name so that there will not be any trace of the funds o my name until when we meet. The amount is USD$220million {Two hundred and twenty million united states dollars} in a storage house in one of the Liberian diplomatic embassy in Europe where no person knows about it .All that is needed is for me to a t
rust worthy person like you so that I can send my attorney to travel down there do the change of ownership to your name so that you can travel down there and claim the two trunk boxes of cash money containing US$220M. I will remunerate you with 40% of the total funds in the consignment as compensation for your assistance and 60% will be for me and my family to start up life again whenever I am out from this God forsaken prison.And incase I die in this wicked world plan to take me to the hauge,please you have to make sure you locate my family and take adequate care of them.
To indicate your interest, kindly reply this mail to my so that she will give further information and directions in making this transaction very successful.
All the legal information and documents that will back up this Money
legally will be sent to you as soon as we agree to together with me.
Awaiting your earlier response to my proposal.
Best Regards.
JEWEL TAYLOR.

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