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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)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "former president of liberia" (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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.
  • brown2006_john@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: JOHN BROWN <brwn003@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:42:53 +0100 (BST)
Subject: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL


Dear Friend,
I hope that you will keep this very confidential.I am leut. John Brown who was the chief security officer to the former President of liberia Charles Taylor.I travellled with him to Nigeria when he was there on exile.I have worked with him ever since he became president of liberia.
The Proposal: Now There is this money that he asked me to keep in a security company for him at Ghana which i did. I did deposit this money with his name and used my own name as his next of kin.all the documents are with me and I can send it to you on request.
I want you to stand as the beneficiary of the money so that both of us will go to the security house or I will ask them to transfer this money to you.The amount is $5.5 million dollars.The security company did not know that the box contains money so please I want you to contact me so that i will instruct you on how to make this deal a reality.
NOTE: I will give out 30% of the total fund to anyone who will assist me in making this deal a reality.
The subject:Charles Taylor was captured when he was trying to flee from his exile house in Nigeria to Cameroun.He has since been taken to world court for killing and causing war in West Africa.He is now in detention in Hague.

PLEASE REPLY ME WITH THIS MY PRIVATE EMAIL FOR SECURITY REASONS: brown2006_john@yahoo.co.in

Awaiting your immediate response,
John Brown


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