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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god-fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • monaiinwsaii@yahoo.co.jp (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: monalisa wassah <monaiinwsaii@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: monaiinwsaii@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 13:28:03 +0100 (BST)
Subject: From Miss Monalisa Wassah


From Miss Monalisa Wassah.

Dearest One,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I cannot be able to see you face to face. I am the only child of my father, late Mr. Princewill Wassah from Liberia West Africa (WA). I am 22 years of age.

My father was a limited liability Diamond and Gold merchant in Monrovia, Liberia before his untimely death after a business trip to Abidjan to negotiate a good business he wanted to invest there.

A week after he came back from Abidjan , he got an accident with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in a private hospital. On that faithful afternoon, I didnt know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die. He,my father(MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of $30,000,000,00 Dollars (Thirty Million U.S Dollars) in a bank here in Abidjan. He said that the money was meant for a new Diamond and Gold company he wanted to establish in that city. He handed me the deposit certificate and instructed me to look for a life-time God-fearing foreign person who will stand as my guardian and see that the money is invested wisely and my academic career taken care of.

Now I have succeeded in locating the bank there in Abidjan,Ivory Coast and they have also confirmed that the money is still in existence. I am pleading for your assistance to help me get this money out from Abidjan to a safe account in your country so that I can secure admission into one of the various universities in your country.This is my only hope in life and I don't want to toil with it.

I am willing to offer you 25% of the total fund if you wish so long as you will help me out of my present predicament. Awaiting anxiously to hear from you . I wait for your immediate reply for more details. You can reach me via my email address: monaiinwsaii@yahoo.co.jp

Yours sincerely,
Monalisa

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