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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:
  • "a security company " (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. )
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "trunk boxes" (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)
  • "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)
  • "former president of liberia" (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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.
  • beefordtaylor@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "beufordtaylor3 Gazeta.pl" <beufordtaylor3@gazeta.pl>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:40:23 -0700
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED


From Beuford Taylor Jnr
Bujumbura Refugees Camp
Liberia Camp Accra Ghana
West Africa.
Email:*beefordtaylor@yahoo.com*

Greetings,

My name is Beuford Taylor Jnr; I am contacting you in good faith because I
need your help. I am the son of late Sir. Beuford Taylor, a Gold merchant in
Liberia. My father died from Rebels gunshots on the Orders of the former
President of Liberia Charles Taylor who is undergoing trials at the United
Nations Court for War Crimes against humanity.

My father was killed because he refused to support and buy arms for the
Rebel movement. For the safety of me and my little sister I escaped to a
refugee camp in Ghana where am hiding until I get someone to help me. Before
my father was killed he told me that he deposited his fortunes in
Ghana in a security company they include:

(1) Trunk Boxes Containing kilos of Solid Gold.
(2) Valuable box which contains the sum of US$25.5 Million dollars (Twenty
five Million five Hundred Thousand dollars).

I want you to stand as my foreign beneficiarry to the security Company.I
will release the documents to you and the authority to help me as the family
foreign Investor to claim the deposited Safe Deposit Trunk Box Containing my
fathers fortune. All I want is for you to help me transfer this Inheritance
to your region where I can be safe and I and my younger sister can return to
school.

Please include your name and phone numbers so I can call and explain better
how you can help me and you can also contact me direct through my direct
contact email address stated below: *beefordtaylor@yahoo.com*

God Bless you.

Yours Faithfully,
Beuford Taylor Jnr.

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