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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:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Williams Frankline <williams_frankline@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: williams0johnson@myway.com
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 07:57:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGE


From: Mr. Williams Frankline


Dear Sir / Madam
Sir Pretoria
HUMBLE ASSISTANC
Dear Sir,

My name is Williams the elder son of Mr. Frankline Johnson of Liberia
This
might be a surprise to you about where I got your contact.

A career diplomat who I consulted in my search for a reliable
individual/company who can assist me in transferring a reasonable sum of
money abroad to a company or private account introduced your firm to me.

During the current war against the farmers in Liberia
from the supports of our President Robert Mutable to claim all the
white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all
white farmers to surrender all their farms to his party members and his
followers.

My father is one of the best farmers in our country and because he did not
support Mugabe's ideas, Mugabe?s supporters invaded my father's farm and
burnt everything in the farm, killing my father and made away with a lot of
items in my father's farm.

Before his death, my father had deposited with one of the finance Company in
PRETORIA,Dakar Senegale, the sum of US$35.7m
after the death of my father; we decided to move to the Republic of Senegale
Dakar where he had deposited the money in the finance Company as family
valuables.

So I decided to contact overseas firm and companies that will assist me to
move this money out of Dakar Senegale because as asylum seekers we are not
allowed to operate any bank account

We have agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for your assistance, 2%
will be mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of
this transaction and 78% will be for me and my family to invest in your
country


All I want you to do is to furnish me with your entire
Personal phone and fax numbers for easy communication. You can contact me on
the above, family Email:

Note that this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely confidential.

Thanks and God bless.

Best regards,


MR. Williams Frankline for the family




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