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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
  
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.

Fraud email example:

From: Gifty Robbert <gifty_robbert_2006@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:55:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Gifty


Dear Sir,
This is Gifty Robbert. My family are greeting you. We are very happy to fine a very good person like you. My father has being arrested. He is a chief driver to the formal president of Liberia, Charles Taylor. First we were living in Nigerian in Kalaba.Before this problem came. Since then, we live Nigeria and came to Ghana which is a very peaceful country. We are right now living in the refugee camp. we need your help and your assist. My father deposited Money and Gold in a western union here in Ghana for safety keeping which nobody knows about it expect as I have told you. We have choosing you as our forign partner from your country. We want to invest in your country. I want you to help us to claim the money out from the western union to enable us to invest it in a profitable business in your country. We are going to live together with your family in your country.Right now we went to the western union for the claimming. We meet the security men in the western union. The
told us that the director is not in Ghana at this moment.
Best Regard,
Gifty Robbert


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