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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
  • "await 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.
  
• 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.
  • +27833413330 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • monicavaye@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Monica Vaye" <monicavaye170za@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: monicavaye@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:23:30 +0200
Subject: Personal Message From Mrs. Monica Nuhan Vaye

Personal Message From Mrs. Monica Nuhan Vaye

Dear Sir,


This letter was bound out of my desire to establish a business relationship
with you considering the fact that I sourced your profile from a human
resource profile database in your country.

My name is Mrs.Monica Nuhan Vaye the widow of the Deputy Minister of Public
Works, Mr. Issac Nuhan Vaye of Liberia in West Africa. My Husband was
falsely accused of plotting to remove the then President of Liberia (Charles
Taylor) from office. Without trial, Charles Taylor killed him. You
can verify this from your country. You can also check in some of the
international newspapers posted in the web sites below:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-07-15-liberia_x.htm

Before my husband was killed, he moved out the sum of US$21.5m (Twenty One
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) through a diplomatic
means, this money is safely kept in the security vault of a private security
company in Johannesburg pending when I will find a trusted foreign business
partner.

I am interested in any business you think can be very viable in your country
as long as the business will not fail me because the lives of my son and I
depends on this money. In your reply please indicate a few businesses you
think will be of mutual benefit to both of us. We will be glad to part with
a reasonable percentage of the total fund to you for all your assistance
towards moving this money out of Johannesburg to your country and helping us
in term of reasonable investment opportunities that will be of mutual
benefit to my family and your humble self.

The security company based on my instructions will release the fund to you
on the fact that you will be presented as our oversea partner who will be
fronting for us in area of business you deem profitable.

I plead with you to treat this issue confidentially.
If my proposal interests you, please forward your reply including your
telephone number and fax numbers to my private email address:

Email: monicavaye@hotmail.com or
tel:+27-83-341-3330

So that I can provide you with more details about the transaction.

Thank you for your anticipated co operation while I await your urgent
response.


Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Monica Nuhan Vaye.

Mr. Chris Nuhan Vaye (Son)

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