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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:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Jerry Hansen <jh10_1@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: jerry_hansen1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 16:21:01 +0100 (BST)
Subject: I have been trying to reach you. Get Back to me please


Dear Roger Timmerman,

It's a long time that I have been looking for a partner like you
so that we can do business together; before
I came across your contact .My name is Jerry Hansen
from Liberia and now in Ghana
West Africa.

My father was a politician and a Tobacco farmer. He was
killed by the rebels. The rebels beat me up and broke my leg and I am now using single stick to walk. During the time my father was alive,
he used my name as next of kin to deposited $15.5millon
USA dollars in Security Company in Ghana. All the
documents bearing my names as the next of kin .

I want to invest this money outside Africa like your
country. I plan to give out 15%percent to whoever that
helps me to claim this consignment from the security
company where my late father deposited it for safe keeping.


My dear , due to my Refugee status here in Ghana, i cannot be able to move such amount out of this country , unless with the assistance of a foreign partner which is the reason i have contacted you.. I want to leave Africa.

Please i am expecting your reply .

God bless you

Regards

Jerry Hansen

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