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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:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "my direct telephone number" (i.e. "call me on my cellphone at the Internet cafe where we scammers hang out")
  • "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.
  • douglas_weah07@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "FROM MR DOUGLAS CONNEH WEAH." <douglas_weah07@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:58:58 +0200
Subject: A CALL FOR YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE, PLEASE!!!


Dearest,
With due respect,trust and humility,i write to you this proposal for an urgent business which i believe will be of great intrest to you.
You may be surprised to recieve this mail from me since you don;t know me personally. I got your contact while doing a private research on the internet in guest of a capable foriegn investor or a gentleman that will be able to assist me hence decieded to write you.
Nevertheless, i am Mr Douglas Conneh Weah from Liberia.
I was a former A.D.C (MESSENGER) of our former president Charles Taylor of Liberia..(ONE OF THE CHARLES TAYLOR BOYS).
During his tenor as the president of Liberia i used to work with him as one of his assistant massengers.
my main job for him is to smuggle and sell diamonds abroad at his comand before the crissis between the rebels and government forces blew out in my country.ie("CHARLES TAYLOR MUST GO") decree by the united states president George W .Bush. which also drives in the attention of international community into my country. this also led to his exile to Nigeria.
But before he left office for exile in Nigeria, i was having some quantity of raw diamonds in my possession which i diverted for myself when the issue of his exile come to reality.
After this i have to move out of Liberia because my life is in danger as an official of the exiled president.
Then i decieded to move to Brussels Belgium with these treasures..
Meanwhile i have disposed these treasures with the help of a lebaneese marchant. After this transaction i total up the sum of Seventeen Million Euros,(17,000,000,euros) which i deposited as fixed with a Bank for save-keeping .
Currently,this money has been transfered to the costody of thier fudiciary agent in Dakar Senegal wich is one of the most peacefull countries in West Africa, because i decieded to settle here for a while .
But in this moment , this money have been matured from the 2 years fixed deposit and now i have decieded to utilize these fund .
So it is because of this fortune that i am contacting you, because i wish to invest in your country(abroad).
What i need is a responsible,reliable,honest and trustworthy partner or a gentleman whom i can entrust my future and that of my family, who also is capable of assisting me to invest .
I wish to go into property marketing with this money.
If you accept to assist me,what i need from you is to help me to open a non residential account or you choose any geniune account which will enable me to transfere this money for any further investment..
I personally will take care of all kinds of expences we may inquire in the process of this transaction and i have maped out 20% of the total capital for you, for norminating any account for the transfere of this money.
N.B. I should let you know that the existence of this fortune which i have revealed to you is confidential and authentic,and there is no risk involved in the process of retrieving this money back from the Bank or for the transfering of this money to any account you will provide .
So if you are capable and willing to assist me,you reply via
douglas_weah07@yahoo.com <mailto:douglas_weah07@yahoo.com>
or my direct telephone number (+00221-6905613) to enable me to fax you all the relevant and necessary documents covering the deposit of this money and or other informations and details you may require from me.
Hope to hear from you soonest in-order to facilitate and commence other arrangements as regarding to this fund.
Thanks.
Yours faithfully
Douglas C. Weah.

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