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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Emmanuel Kondo" <emm885kondo@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: emma_kondo@excite.com
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:00:10 +0000
Subject: RE:INVESTMENT

Dear Friend,

I am aware that this letter may come to you as most unespected since we have
not met ourselves previously, it is a long time that i have being looking
for a trustworthy partner like you so that we can do business together,
Before i came across your contact. My name is Mr.Emmanuel Kondo. from
Liberia and presently in a (UN) refugee camp in a border town between Ivory
coast and Ghana in west Africa. My father was a politiecian and Tobacco
farmer. He was killed in his bed room by the rebels. The rebels beat me and
broke my leg and i am now using single stick before i walk. During the time
my father was alive, My father used my name as next of king to deposite
$15.5millon USA dollars in secuirity company in Ghana. All the documents
bearing in my name. I want to invest this money outside Africa like your
country. I decide to give out 15%pecent to you if you help me claim out this
consignment as my late fathers foreign partner from the security company
where my late father deposite the consignment as a family valuables / gift
items to his foreign partner for safe keepings, Just try me to see my dear i
want to invest the money in a good business abroad. Please reply me if you
are intrested or not so that i can know what to do next.

Your's sincerely,
Mr.Emmanuel Kondo.

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