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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:
  • "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.
  • afred_leno@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Alfred Lenomar" <lonomara1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: afred_leno@myway.com
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:14:51 +0000
Subject: Acknowledge receipt

Dear Executive,

There is a change of policy in our Government. The newly elected president,
Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, having vowed to tackle
corruption in the country has sacked all the entire staffs of THE FEDERAL
MINISTRY OF FINANCE. She has also ordered that no one should leave the
shores of the country while our accounts are being investigated. I need your
assistance; I am Dr. Alfred Lenomar, from Liberia and the Director of
Foreign Operations of the Ministry. There are concealments of fund which I
would want you to assist me deposit into a secret account. We have been
banned from traveling out side the country pending the out come of the
investigation. Please I have the sum of $17m in a Finance/Security Company
in Europe which I would want you to assist me in keeping this funds. I would
not know the extent the investigation would go. You will be adequately
compensated after the transfer. Please this requires urgency and secrecy. I
need your assistance to avoid seizure of this fund. I have made the
arrangements and all I need is for you to provide an account where the money
would be deposited into. There is no risk in this please but I want the
money transferred before the investigation extends to Europe. Please get
back to me as soon as possible via my private box: afred_leno@myway.com

Sincerely yours
Dr. Alfred Lenomar.

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