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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447040130250 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • haretadams@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: HARET ADAMS <haretadams11@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:56:17 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: NICE TO CONTACT YOU.


FROM:MRS HARET ADAMS
United Kingdom
+44-704-0130-250

DEAR FRIEND
May God bless and be with you as you receive and go through this message.
Thank you for the positive response that I am expecting from you.I got you contact information when I was on a private research going through some business directory/pamphlets and the internet looking for a reliable,trusted and capable person who can support me in resolving my presentsituation.
Sorry for using this medium to contact you for a lucrative transaction of this kind,I did this for the confidentiality of the transaction to ensure that I am dealing with the right person. Before I go further, it is important for you to know me.
I am Mrs Haret Adams, personal/private accounting officer to President Charles Taylor of Liberia. My reason of writing you for assistance is to support me in the moving out of London the sum of(US$30,000,000.00)United States Dollars to your personal or company account in your country. As the personal accountant to the president, I keep accounts of his private account/savings, which he has within the country.
The accounts are setup in my names for hisconfidentiality. When the war started in the country where by the rebels wants to eliminate him and his followers, I decided to relocate and save my life and my family. So I have to withdraw this amount from the account to sustain my future leaving. With the help of a friend who is a flight officer we manage to move the fund through diplomatic means out of Liberia.
Presently, I am residing in London U.K as a refugee (asylum seekers) with myfamily where the fund is presently deposited with a private Security and Financial Company asconsignment named family valuables. I did this to secure the money, I couldn't even disclose the actual content deposited because it was unsafe to do so and if the Security Company is aware that it is money of such amount deposited with them, I may loose it all.
I am willing to offer you 20% of the whole money for the inconveniences this will cost you and for YOUR assiatnce to move this funds out of London, while 5% for any expenses that both you and I might incur during the process of the transaction. Then 75% will be for me, to setup a profitable venture in your country with your advice and directions. Contact me immediately either by email or the above telephone number, indicating your interest as soon as possible, on receiving of your acceptance, I shall be glad to give you more clarificationon the modalities needed for smooth and successful completion of this transaction.Please re-confirm your direct phone and fax numbers in your reply. I anticipate your quick response.

Best regards,

Mrs Haret Adams

N:B I WILL SEND YOU THE FULL PICTURE OF THE BOXES UPON YOUR REPLY,please send all response to this e-mail address : haretadams@myway.com








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