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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:

• 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:
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "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.
  • lifeaddventures00@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "From Mr Johnson Taylor ." <Johnsont@web.de> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:12:09 +0200
Subject: From Mr Johnson Taylor .

From Mr Johnson Taylor .
Villa 11 Riviera Golf cocody
Cote d ivoire,00225-0849-3022

Dearly Beloved,

With all sincerity and humility it is with deep pains i write you this message of wishful assistance to my predicament.I am Mr. Johnson Taylor the son of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor. I have in my possession the sum of (USD 20M) Twenty Million US Dollars and the top list of my priority is where to invest this money outside my country reason best known to me".

I urgently need your assistance in providing a reliable genuine trade or Company where I can invest the fund and immediately meet you in your country for settlement.
Please I will kindly welcome your advice too; I am expecting your urgent response and your support and seriousness.

I am presently on exile after the United States asked my father to resign as the President of Liberia,due to the trial of my father in Sierra Leon and the planned movement of his case to internal court in Hague (Netherland). I would like for security reasons for you to keep this matter within yourslef for now.

Your offer for assisting me can be negotiated.
Send your confidential phone number so that I can reach you when necessary.
Note that this project is 100% risk free.

Contact me through:lifeaddventures00@yahoo.com

Regards,
Johnson Taylor.

Anti-fraud resources:

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