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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:
  • "hundred thousand u.s 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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +221773590274 (Senegal, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Jenifa Saybana <jenifa1300@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: jenifasaybana1981@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 02:00:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dearest One


Dearest One

I will really like to have a good relationship with you. I promise you all that makes up a defined and a refined LOVE and I have a special reason why I decided to contact you. I decided to contact you because of the urgency of my situation here. I am Miss Jenifa Saybana Kamara, 27 years old girl from Liberia, the only daughter of late Saybana Kamara who was one time a Senate speaker of Liberia but killed in the recent political crisis in my country.

I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment I'm receiving from my step mother since the death of my father. She planned to take away all my late father's treasury and properties from me since the unexpected death of my beloved father. Meanwhile I wanted to escape to the Europe but she hide away my international passport and other valuable traveling documents. Luckily, she did not discover where I kept my father’s file which contained important documents. So, I decided to run to the refugee camp where I'm presently seeking asylum under the United Nations High Commission for the Refugee here in Dakar, Republic of Senegal. I wish to contact you personally for a long term business relationship and investment assistance in your country or any-where you might recommend.
My late father of blessed memory deposited the sum of Six Million, Five Hundred thousand U.S Dollars (US$6,500,000.00) some-where with my name as the "next of kin".

However, I shall forward you with the necessary documents on confirmation of your acceptance to assist me receive the fund in your country for further investments on my behalf. As you will help me in an investment, and i will like to complete my studies when I will come over to your country as I was in my 1st year in the university when the crisis started. It is my intention to compensate you with 10% of the total money for your services and the balance will be my investment capital. This is the reason why I decided to contact you. Please all communications should be through this email address only for confidential purposes.

As soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest, I will put things into action immediately and will educate you more on the way you will assist me receive the money. In the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent response indicating your ability and willingness to handle this transaction sincerely. I am staying at the female hostel here in the refugee camp. Please, keep this transaction to your self only. Do not disclose it to any one till the fund (money) gets to you in your country which I will also come over once the fund (money) gets to you. I promise you sincerity and honesty over this our transaction and relationship and will always love you forever. In my next mail. Bellow is my picture. I expect your honest and earliest reply. If you want to get me on phone, you please call me through the reverend-priest of the refugee camp on +221 773590274, his name is Mark Anthony, call and tell him you want to speak to Jenifa Saybana Kamara of
Liberia.


Yours Sincerely,


Jenifa Saybana Kamara






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