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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • cine123bruce@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "cine12bruce" <cine12bruce@terra.com.mx>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:28:24 -0600
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE


Dear Friend,
Recently over the bbc radio and tv you might be watching and hearing on the media , issue partaining my family.

I am Mrs Cina Taylor the Wife of the Formal liberian president Charles Taylor Who has been on exile to (Nigeria) a country in West African since the political unrest in the liberian country, My Husband has been in the West African Country for an assylom,but of recent the United Nation (U N) demanded that he should be tried befor the liberian court of law he has been reminded.

Right now,the life of mine and all my family is not certain the nation is treatning to treat my family in an unGodly manner.

Please first and formost i need your assistant to help my helpless family to secure this part of my family account, hence some of myHusband,s account has been frozeen by the present administration.

However, my family decided to search for a good samaritan who can help to secure this some of [$15.2million usd (fiften million two thousand us dollars.

Which is rightly kept in an unsecured enviroment, i belive you are the only one who can help in securing this fund to avoid it from been discorvered and confisticated by this present administration, my family promise to reward you with 10% of this Fund after you recieve it. I pray that God will reward you as you see my family through from this situation.

please reply to cine123bruce@yahoo.co.uk as soon as you recieve this email

Thanks and God Bless
Cina Taylor.

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