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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:

• 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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "PLEASE SAVE THE LIFE OF MY ADGE MOTHER" <camarasuzan@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: suzan_camara@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:57:45 +0200
Subject: PLEASE SAVE THE LIFE OF MY ADGE MOTHER

Hello Beloved one,
I send this later to you hence i can’t let my age mother to die in the hospital for lake of help, Breadring my age mother was undergoing critical condition in the city hospital in yoff dakar, Right know she need urgent surgry and blood transmition acording to the doctor,The doctor need total of $4.200. Four thousand two hundred dollars for the oparetion and blood, He said that i should provide half of the money before he can start the treatment,

Me and my age mother managed to come to yoff dakar from my country liberia before she daveloped the heart attack since last year, Please i need your help in any way you can so that i can save the life of my mother as she is all i have for life, iam a girl of 18 years and don’t no where and how i can get this money as this country is not mine and don’t have any relation hear, please reply as soon as you recieve this mail and God will bless you as you help in any way to save the life of my mother,
Your’s miss Suzan camara.

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