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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:
  • "former president of liberia" (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: John Bowman <bowman_box7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <johnbowmanbox@sify.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:41:36 +0100
Subject: From: John Bowman.



From: John Bowman.
First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that this is no harm and risk free.
My name is John Bowman, my client (Mr. Charles Taylor former president of Liberia) need a partner to assist him in investing the fund (US$8.2M) he deposited with a bank in United Kingdom before he was arrested and been detained for human abused.
He would like to have your assistance so that these funds can be invested in your care on any profitable investment with your assistance as a fund manager/investment partner.
This is why I contacted you; If you have a profitable idea of where these fund can be invested and if you are willing to assist my client please get back to me with your ideas, so I can give you details before we proceed.
Regards,John Bowman.
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