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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:
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "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: grace GRACE <grace_firm@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:34:35 -0800 (PST)
Subject: your asistant urgent to miss grace pls





Dr.GRACE Aba
Accra-Ghana.
Dear
I am Dr. GRACE Annan, the chairman, contract awarding and tender
committee of African Union (A.U) with sub-head in Accra Ghana.
I got your contact during my search for a reliable person to entrust
this huge money transfer project with. My colleagues and I involved in
this project have Agreed to seek your mutual partnership into this huge
Money transfer project.
We wish to transfer the sum of (twenty million united state dollars)
US$1.5,000,000.00 to your personal or company Account.
This fund originated from over invoiced Contract bills awarded by us
for the supply of pharmaceutical and Medical equipment to the ecomog
peacekeeping mission In Liberia and sierra-Leone civil wars.
This over Invoiced sum was deliberately hatched out and Carefully
protected with all attendant lope holes Sealed off.
The original executors of the contracts have been Dully paid through
International Commercail Bank.
This over invoiced sum is suspended in an escrow account awaiting
claims by any foreign person/company we may front as the owner. Based On the
law and ethics of our service to A.U, we as Civil servants are not
allowed to operate a foreign Account.
You are offered 20% of the total sum as commission,75% will be held on
trust for us, while 5% is set aside to reimburse expenses incurred in
the course of executing the project.
The project is expected to be completed within 14 days if you accord us
maximum co-operation.
we solicit for your unreserved confidentiality in this project. There
is no risk involved.
Call me upon the receipt of this mail for more detailson the procedure
via my
Honorably Yours,
Dr. GRACE Aba






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