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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "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.

Fraud email example:

From:
Date:
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP.

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Prince Stephen Johnson, I am a Liberia by nationality, My=C2=
=A0 father is a Diamond and Gold dealer, And he was a special adviser=C2=
=A0 to the formal president of liberia before=C2=A0 he was killed by hi=
s oppositor.

My late father CHIFE,Edo Stephen=C2=A0 he deposited 18.2millions u.s.do=
llars and 150killo of raw gold in consignment fund box with a security =
company call Free Choice Storage Unit in Ghana, with my name as a next =
of kin.=C2=A0 =C2=A0

As i am write you this email now i have retreive back the consigment fu=
nd box that contain $18.2million from the security company and i am in =
my hotel room with the fund box, i have open it and it is a clean money=
, and i have close it back.

I got your contact from christian brother that you are a God fearing pe=
rson, Trusted , and hornest who can help me receive the money, and inve=
st it in any profitable business and also help me buy a living house in=
your country, Upon your interest to help me invest the fund i have sen=
t aside 20% as your share why the rest will be invested in the business=
=2E

So i what you to send me some names which i will use to send you money =
and your contact address to your door step, your mobil number, your int=
ernational passport or your photograph, for me to know you so that i ca=
n send you the adavce money which you will use to receive the diplomat =
and me, as soon as=C2=A0 we arrive in your country with the consignment=
fund box or you will use the advance money to come over to me in ghana=
to do the transfer of the money to your country with me for the invest=
ment.

=46or your information i have open the box and i have take $30,000 usdo=
llars=C2=A0 out of the fund box to buy a JEEP CAR that am using for now=
to make all the necessary arrangement inside of hire taxi for the move=
ment, this is my plane=C2=A0 for now.

All the document that convered up the consigment fund box and the key t=
o open the money box are with me here in my hotel room, i want you to k=
eep it secrete between me and you alone, Because this is the only hope =
i have since i lost my father.=C2=A0 I am waiting for your urgent reply=
=2E
Best Regard.
PRINCE STEPHEN JOHNSON.

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