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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • mary_kariam1m@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mary kariam" <mary_kariam1m@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:15:12 +0000
Subject: HELLO

Greeting

Dear Sir, I am very sorry to bother you with my plight. Please know that
it's not by mistake I am contacting you but by the special grace of God.
After searching for someone I can lay my plight to, I’ve finally come with
you after prayers to God. My name is Mary Kariam from Liberia. I am 19. My
father and I escaped from our country at the heat of the civil war after
loosing my mother and two of my senior sisters in the war. They were raped
and shot.
My father established his cocoa business in Accra, Ghana. He was in Accra,
to negotiate for the purchase a field when he was involved in an auto crash.
There is a big problem here and the people here hate foreigners. He was
hospitalised before he finally gave up on the 24th of March.His death has
now made me an orphan and I am exposed to danger. As I write, foreigners are
attacked on daily basis.

Before the unfortunate sudden death, my father called me to his side and
told me he have a cosignment being deposited in a security company and the
content of the box is money which the company did not know as money excipt
me.And the box contain total sum of 7.950,000 million dollars deposited in a
security company here in Accra. He said he used me his only surviving child
as his next of kin to the deposite and incase he fails to make it that I
should take care of myself and get someone to help invest the money for me.
I have all the papers with me here. I have confirm from the company all the
papers he gave me on the deposit.

I asked them to give me the consignment but they showed me the paper my dad
signed with them that I must provide foreign beneficiary to claim the
consignment out before they can release it for me. They told me that my dad
made a provision that my guardian can manage the consignment on my behalf.
Please this is where I need you pleased. I am suffering here without money
and since he died, I have not gone to school again while there is money
lying in there please i need help. I have tried to locate any of my family
but all to no avail and this is why I have decided to get one for my self to
assist me in getting the money out. I will do all you want from me provided
it’s within my reach and the will of God. I trust you because I trust God
never to lead me astray.
Please help me. I have just told them that my guardian will contact them
because I don’t want them to take advantage of me that i have no guardian. I
want you to stand for me as my guardian or beneficiary to contact
thesecurity company . Tell them you are my guardian and because of the
crisis here, you want me to be with you where you can take better care of
me. Please help save my life please. I have no more money here and feeding
is a big problem to me now. Please I trust you because I trust God. Again,
As soon as the money has been transfered, to assist me with a letter of
invitation that will make me get a visa to your country for residence in
order for me to continue my education and to invest the money in a viable
business there.

This money can take care of me there without any problem and please I need
you to manage the money for me, as this is my last hope in life. I am ready
to do anything you want provided you help me. You can Have 30 percent of the
money if you help me. If this is acceptable to you, send me a mail through
my e-mail account: mary_kariam1m@hotmail.com so that I can know you more.
Please send me your photo and your telephone number please. God Bless you.
Yours,
Sincerely
Mary Kariam.

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