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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:
  • "necessary legal documents" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "your humble assistance" (a common phrase found 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.
  • yemi010@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "FROM YEMI KABALA." <yemi012230@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: yemi020@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 09:33:19 +0000
Subject: FROM YEMI KABALA.

HELLO DEAR.

MY NAME IS YEMI KABALA AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU COULD BE OF AN ASSISTANCE TO OVER THIS PROBLEM. PLEASE READ BELOW AND GET BACK TO ME.
I INHERITATED AN INPORTANT SOME FROM MY LATE FATHER WHO DIED IN RECENT CRISIS IN LIBERIA.I WISH TO REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IN WELCOMEING ME INTO YOUR LIFEAND AT THESAME TIME INVEST THIS SUM INTOLUCRATIVE VENTURE OR MANUFACTURING AND REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT IN YOUR COUNTRY.I HAVE FIVE MILLION, SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS. USD( 5,700.000) TO INVEST IN YOUR COUNTRY AND I WILL REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE INRECEIVING THE FUND IN YOUR COUNTRY.

BEFORE THE DEATH OF MY FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 2005, HE GAVE ME ALL THE NECESSARY LEGAL DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE DEPOSITED FUND, I AM 21 YEARS OLD AND A UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE AND REALLY DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW I WANT A PERSON IN OVERSEAS WHERE I CAN TRANSFER THIS FUNDS AND AFTER THE TRANSACTION I WILL COME AND RESIDE PERMANENTLY IN YOUR COUNTRY TILL SUCH A TIME THAT IT WILL BE CONVINIENT FOR ME TO RETURN BACK HOME IF I SO DESIRE. THIS IS BECAUSE I HAVE SUFFERED A LOT OF SET BACK AS A RESULT OF INCESSANT POLITICAL CRISIS HERE IN LIBERIA.

THE DEATH OF MY FATHER ACTUALLY BROUGHT SORRSW TO MY LIFE. I ALSO WANT TO INVEST THE FUND UNDER YOUR CARE BECAUSE I AM IGNORANT OF BUSINESS WORLD.
I AM IN A SINCERE DESIRE OF YOUR HUMBLE ASSISTANCE IN THIS REGARDS.YOUR SUGGESTIONS AND IDEAS WILL BE HIGHLY REGARDED. NOW PERMIT ME TO ASK THESE FEW QUESTIONS.

1. CAN YOU HONESTLY WELCOME AND HELP ME FROM YOUR HART?
2. CAN I COMPLETELY TRUST YOU BECAUSE I WOULDNT WANT ANYTHING THAT WILL BREAK MY HART AGAIN IN MY LIFE?
PLEASE, CONSIDER THIS AND GET BACK TO MEAS SOON AS POSSIBLE.IMMEDATLY I CONFIRM YOUR WILLINEGNESS. TO ASSIST ME. THEN I WILL ALSO GIVE MORE DETAILS ABOUT MYSELF AND WHERE MY LATE FATHER DEPOSITED THE FUND. SO THAT YOU WILLCAN REACH THEM AS WELL AND CONFIRM BY YOUR SELF.PLEASE ALWAYS REPLY TO ME THOUGH THIS MY YAHOO E-MAIL ADDRESS. yemi010@yahoo.fr

AWAITING YOUR URGENT REPLY.
GOD BE WITH YOU

YEMI KABALA

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