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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found 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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: ogreat20002002 <ogreat20002002@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 23:14:07 +0900 (JST)
Subject: please contact me

Hello My Dear,

I know you will wounder who I am and why I sent you this message because you do not know me, It's for this reason that I decided to contact you by email at first for formal introduction after which we shall start to know each other better. Please I will like you to read my message carefully to understand my reason for contacting you.
My name is Great Ogburu, A Liberian citizen. My father Dr. G.D Ogburu was a private doctor to President Charles Taylor in Liberia republic before he was mudered by his political enemies last year.
I will like you to become my friend and future business partner.
With deep respect, I want you to Assist me to come and invest with you in your country the sum of USA $8.5Million dollars only which my father left for me before he died.
He told me when he was about to die in the hospital that he wanted to use these money to establish business outside my country after the regime of president Charles Taylor.
This money is in a trunk box which he lodged in the custody of a reputable property care & deposit security company In Ivory Coast Republic, the contents of the box was disguised as valuable treasures not as money because he do not want anybody even the security company to know about these money for personal reasons.
Please, due to the political instability in my country couple with the problems I am having with my family members I will like you to assist me to bring these money into your country so that I can invest the money with you because I do not have good knowlladge about business.
If you agree to assist me please let me know so that we shall discuss your benefit before we can start the arrangement.

I am expecting your reply,

Sincerely,
Great Ogburu



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