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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • mail2lizzon202@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lillian J Dabah" <lizzon202@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mail2lizzon202@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:03:41 +0100
Subject: Hello Dearest Heart

Hello Dearest Heart
I thank you very much for honoring my invitation, distant can't deny any good love,i hope that this my mail find you in good health, Dearest heart.
my name is miss Lillian Jonson dabah from Liberia,i live my country because of the evil men that killed my father when he was about to have a dinner with his colleagues in abroad , he travel with some of his friends to a conference meeting
in united Kingdom Belfast London;and they thought that the man will loose everything about his career since that I'm the only daughter and also the only child in my family,my mum died in Spain when she was battling a sickness called heart failure
in the year 2005,while my late father died, he only gave my mother a year before he gave up the ghost,please dearest heart let this my life history touch your heart,that was how i became an orphan
in my life,i loose my parents and everything about my family is now a thing of the past,my late father was a good business man who has many investment in my country home Liberia,but I'm still a little girl who is about 25 years old now,
the enemies that killed my father is after my life and i rum away from my country to a near by country here called Senegal where I'm now as a refuge,
i need a gentle man (or a woman) who can be sincere to me who will love me and be truthful to me,that was the reason why i came across to your email contacte ,
and all my heart told me that you are a God fearing someone who can stand for the truth to show me a real love,
dearest heart i have a lot to tell you because what i found in you make me to be very much interested in you,i have all my father documents here with me,also his account in abroad,which is in London bank,i have all the documents that proof all this that I'm telling you now ,
Please i have not told anyone except you and the Reverend about the existence of this and i will like you to please keep it secret to other people because since it is (MONEY) all eyes will be on it. Remember i trust you dearest heart that is why i am giving you all this information!
my love is for you and you alone.
Now I have informed the bank about my plans to claim this money and the only thing they told me is to look for a foreign partner who will stand on my behalf due to my refugee status and the laws of this country.You will have 40% of the total money for helping me and the remaining money will be managed by you in any business of your choice while i go back to my studies. In this regards i will like you to contact the bank immediately with
the information i will give to you soon after you get back to me ,tell them that you are my foreign partner and that you want to know the possibilities of assisting me transfer my $9.7 million dollars deposited by my late father which i am the next of kin to your account in your country.
Then all i need now is your full contact information,such as number,country of origin and also your bank information if there is any. Am glad that God has brought you to see me out from this situation and i promise to be kind and will equally need you in every area of my life including investing this money since i am still too young to manage it.i am just 25yrs
As i told you before,this camp is just like a prison and my prayers is to move out from here as soon as possible. Please make sure that you will help so that after the transfer of the money to your account, you can send some money from that money for me to prepare my traveling documents to meet with you in your country.I will send some of my pictures to you, latter when i know your mind about this.
Also help me to pray and thank Father Reverend Daniel Jonathan whom i have been using his computer to write this message to you , i will be sending to you his office telephone number on my next email so that you can call to speak with me because i really want to hear your voice. Dearest heart i am in love with you please be a gentle person and also a trustworthy person that can show me real love,take good care of yourself for me, i miss you
email me mail2lizzon202@yahoo.com
Yours in love Lillian

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