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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "faith williams" <faithwilliams2@excite.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:54:10 -0800
Subject: please i need your help

Dear sir Please note that, I have ascertained your contact after my due mediation to God, on my search for a foreign partner to assist me in my situation and presently in refugee status here. i am faith williams a daughter of chief micheal .s. william the director of diamond minning company liberia my father was kill during the liberia war by rebel soldies Meanwhile, There was deposited the sum of $12MUSD in a security company in ACCRA-GHANA. Right now, we have been stepped down from Power by the amnesty international for another Government to take over. Please my request now is that this money was deposited on arrangement to move it aboard, which I will like you now to stand with me as the beneficiary to receive these funds. One of the most important things is that we have to make all the necessary documentation in your favor through the help of a lawyer here Ghana to go at the court to effect the change of ownership in Also this transaction is completing risk free and you stands
to get 20% from your good assistance and another 5% for all the expenses incurred in this project. Also I will be waiting for your urgent response for the conclusion of this transaction. Best Regards. Miss Faith Williams

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