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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)
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned 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: "john_taylor23@terra.es" <john_taylor23@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 16:51:27 +0100 (MET)
Subject: PARTNERSHIP



Dear Friend,
I am john taylor son of the former Liberian President Charles Taylor.as
you must have being aware my family presently now in Calabar.Cross
River state Nigeria.
My father .president Charles Taylor quit office On Novemeber 12,2003
when the rebel fighting to topple his government have come too close to
Monrovia.the capital city of Liberia and the American Government which
hitheto supported my father's government advised him to quit to
restorepeace in Liberia.

My father was then granted assylum in Nigeria by his friend,President
Olusegun Obasanjo,so since then We have been living in Nigeria but
presently iam now in England on assylum.
You see during my father's reign as Liberian President I was able to
make some millions of dollars via the sales of Diamond to the world as a
result of the prefential treatment I had during my father's tenure.

I succeeded in lodging some millions of Dollars oversea and now decide
to invest about some millions us$ dollars on any lucrative bussiness abroad and formy
plan to be effective I now want to seek for a good,trustworthy and God
fearing foreigner who will be as my partner and will be 100% in
control of this investment while i will operate underground because
for nowi do not want people to know I own such project not even my family.As i
told you we are on assylum in Nigeria , if you wish to be my partner
you can get back to me asap.
For me to know your plans and what I need to do to speed up the
processing.
Thanks and God bless.
john taylor.






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