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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:
  • "million united states 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.
  • evanglay2006@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: derek vincent <ken_brook121f@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: evanglay2006@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:41:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: ANTTENTION


GOOD DAY, SIR/MADAM.
MY NAME IS PRO,KENNEDY FIBRESIMA
Attn:

Permit me to humbly introduce myself as Pro. KENNEDY FIBRESIMA a former PETROLEUM MINISTER in LIBERIA during the civil war the year 1990 in Liberia .

I am making this contact with you, on the strength of the advice of my mother and my lawyer to search for a reliable investment partner abroad as a result of the civil war in Liberia .

Thus it is of utmost importance that I find somebody, a reliable foreign partner to form a joint business venture in your country to the tune of my treasure worth $10million united state dollars gold realise during the civil war in Liberia with cash of $2.5million united states dollars which I am now ready to use for an investment in abroad. Therefore anybody who I choice to be my business partner must possess the necessary business experience and expertise to manage/oversee the day to day activities associated with the joint investment.

Your responsibility as a partner will be to devote the time necessary to conduct a buyer for the gold and to secure the money in the bank with my name and to invest the money into a profitable investment portfolio on my behalf and to keep me informed as to the contractual and business arrangement with the transaction, payment dates and amount paid from time to time by you for this transaction.

The investment of a company or industry that will be build in your country will be carried in accordance with the prevailing International Laws and the Laws of your country guiding such an investment. And the said funds for Investments are of legitimate origin and not as a result of money laundering or any illegalities as such it is 100% risk free.

We will work out details of your compensation for your services, in the event you decide to work with me on this project, please kindly reply to this email if you are willing to help me. I will need more information regarding your establishment and investment opportunities in your country, also include your direct telephone and fax numbers.

Best Regard
Pro. KENNEDY FIBRESIMA



Waiting For Your Kind Reply
Best Regard
Pro.KENNEDY FIBRESIMA



REPLY TO THIS MAIL
evanglay2006@yahoo.com

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