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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "transfer into your account" (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)
  • "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)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (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.
  • mummyspet_86@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Daniella Tailor <mummyspet_86@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:49:30 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: REPLY ME IMMEDIATELY PLZ


My dearest one,
Thank you so much as you are making out just some minutes out of your preciouse time to read this my letter to you.

To introduce myself to you?my name is miss Daniella Taylor,iam 20yrs old,iam the only child of mrs.fidelia charles taylor the second wife of the former liberian president,Mr. Charles Taylor.

i and my mother have been living in ivory coast [ cote d' ivory] since the year 1999 because of the political situation in our country liberia and the war has come and gone,glory be to God.

going into details now concerning the marriage of my parents i think will be time waste because it would make this letter to change to a novel;all i want to tell you is that i need your help urgently if you think you could be sincere to me please.

My mother Fidelia Taylor died in august 27th this year in a ghastly motor accident which occured between her honda element jeep and a heavy truck around adjame in ivory coast and left an acount with the sum of fifty seven million us dollars (us $ 57,000,000:00).

My father Mr. charles Tailor who is now in the world court facing war crime charges was the one that opened this account for me and my mother through one of his aids when he was the president of my country.

my problem now is that this money is about to be tampered with by some of my father's former aides who knew about the account,one of them Mr keita Windis was the one that my father trusted and used to transfer most of his money,but now the man has turned a wolf in sheep's clothing,he was the one that opened the acount and paid inn the money which was one hundred and twenty thousand u.s dollars then.now he is working with some other people to claim the fund.

please my dear,if i loses this money,i'm realy going to suffer in this world because i dont have any other thing to hold on to;my mother is now dead,my father is languishing in detention,my step mother and the familly refused to accept me claiming that my mother wasn't married legally by my father,no brother,no sister,what a world!

my lawyer after some consultation with the bank manager has advice me to find a trusted ally in abroad to enable the money to be tranfer out of the country as soon as possible.that is where i want you to help me please,just to let this money be transfer into your account;they said they is no risk in it except that i'm going to lose atleast fifteen to twent percent of the money to the person it will be transfer into his or her account and who am i to say no when i dont want to lose it all to this people.

just see the pains in my eyes as i'm writing this mail,take me just as your daughter,sister,brother or even your wife and help me out of this situation i'm now before this wicked friends of my father cuts short my future please.
i dont have and i dont know anyone abroad please,the sadest part of it is that my late mummy who was from uganda had never introduce me to any of her people before she died;she promised me to do so this coming xmas and now she is no more.

please if you care to help me on this,mail me back urgently please through mummyspet_86@yahoo.fr so that i can consult my lawyer immediately for further processing of the documents.
all i need from you now is introducing yourself,country and your phone number please. thanks for your understanding,hope to hear from you urgently.

miss Daniella Taylor.
35 minigerie,yopuogun niagon
abidjan
cote d'ivory



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