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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 united states 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)
  • "diplomatic security company" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist 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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Hadisa sankoh . Burns" <Hadis_sankoh@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: Hadisa_sankoh@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:09:34 +0000
Subject: please repey this information

Dear
I am Mrs Hadisa sankoh Burns from Liberia, my late husband Mr Burns Sani was killed during the war in Liberia some years ago.
This sad event happened in a cool evening when we were relaxing in our house in Hebel town in Liberia, the rebels entered my husband house and went straight to his room shot him as he was trying to escape through the back gate of the house.
Meanwhile, Before the rebels turn to me and my two daughter with the intention to rape us my daughters shouted and as fate would have it we were rescued by government forces who shot and killed the rebels.
My husband was rushed to the government hospital for treatment, it was there he now disclose to me that because he was the head of the Finance Department of FierStone Rubber Plantation at this hour he decide to tell me where he deposited the sum ten million,six hundred thousand united states dollars($10,600.000.00) in Ecowas Diplomatic Security Company.
Is Only me and his lawyer know where this money was kept, please your urgent responses is highly needed.
All i need is for you to help me to transfer this money and to come over there to meet you for business planning if you still insisted.
Mrs Hadisa sankoh . Burns

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