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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.
  • jamesfadi201@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DR. JAMESFADI" <jamesfadi@smxbox.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jamesfadi201@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:33:44 +0800
Subject: Dear Stranger

Dear Sir/Ma, You may be surprised to receive my letter, however, I got your contact from the Chamber of Commerce and Trade. I have decided to contact you for confidential, urgent and rewarding joint business. My name is Dr.JAMES FADI, a Personal friend to Mr. Charles Taylor Ex-president of Liberia, who step a side for peace to rein in the war torn Liberia. My aim of writing to you is because of the need for a trusted and honest person, who we can entrust the sum of (Twenty Five million, US Dollars). Source of the money: the said ex-president made the money while ruling his country and secured this money in a security firm safe deposit in Europe. Now that he is currently been tried for War Crime in Sierra Leon he want to transfer the money into the care of a trust worthy person for investment in his/her country, to avoid frozen or seizure. I can not travel out of where I am on Political asylum being Taylor’s associate, hence he !
asked me to seek for your assistance to have this money in your care pending when his Wife and Children can be able to come over to your country. If you accept this offer we shall share the money as follows: for you, 20%, 75% for my associates and 5% for expenses. I have all the title documents to the fund which I can transfer to you to enable you have assess to it. Be assured that is risk-free and legitimate. Please advise me on your position by e-mail immediately, Please I await your prompt reply to jamesfadi201@yahoo.com. Regards, Dr. James Fadi

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