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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk boxes" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • sweetjessicajohnson@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "jessica Johnson" <jessicajohnson2003@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:16:09 +0000
Subject: Warm Greetings

I am Jessica Johnson and Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson:
Compliment of the day!

I and my mother write to seek for your assistance and we got your contact
from a noble gentleman and his wife (Mr. and Mrs. Steve Baker) who were
tourist that came to our refugee camp to give a seminar about AIDS, whom my
mother confronted that we are looking for a trust worthy and God-fearing
person that can assist us retrieves and invest our funds in United Kingdom.
I and my mother will be very happy and appreciate and we welcome your
assistance. First and foremost i must solicit your strictest confidence in
this transaction and i prayed that my decision to contact you will be given
guinea approval considering the fact that we have not know each other
before.

I which to introduce myself to you, Am Jessica Johnson from Monrovia Liberia
West Africa, I write to inform you my desire to invest and buy a house in
your London . Am 22years old the daughter of chief, WEAH JOHNSON a paramount
chief in Liberia Monrovia? My father before his death, he was a diamond/Gold
merchant in my country until his death. My late father was shot by rebels on
his way raveling to Louisa a city after Freetown the capital city along with
my brother and sister.

My brother and sister died on the spot why my father was rescue by the UN
peace keeping force and he was taken to the hospital for medical treatment
which he later died after three months. Before his dead, he revealed to my
mother about a trunk boxes containing $15.million US Dollar which he
deposited with a security firm in Canada for safe keeping. My father never
discloses the contents of the boxes to the security company to avoid the
officials to raise an eyebrow on the funds.

Presently I and my mother are here in Ghana as refugee, and we are staying
in the refugee Bujumbura camp. My mother called the security firms, and we
were told that my late father made an agreement bonds with their firm that
should not release the consignments to any member of my family without a
foreign business partner in oversea. This is the reason why my mother and I
are contacting you to seek for your assistance.

Therefore, I want you to lecture me and my mother how best we can vest this
funds, because my father told us that its dangerous to invest this funds in
Africa to avoid suspicious and due to the market instability couple with the
economic and political instability facing the African countries.

We wants to invest in UK for your mutual assistance, myself and my mother
have agreed to offer you 25% out of the funds. We have all documents
covering the deposit and the ownership including the contract Bond which we
can fax to you on request. My brother who was suppose to be the next of kin
to receive the trunk boxes died on the spot and we don’t know how to go
about this henceforth we are seeking for you’re assistant.

So I will really like you to get back to me as soon as possible with your
direct Fax number to my email address: sweetjessicajohnson@yahoo.com find
below my photography, my mother photography, my late father burial ceremony,
Death Certificate and day he deposited the funds.

God Bless you
Sincerely yours
Jessica Johnson
(For Deceased Weah Johnson Family)

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