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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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Fraud email example:

From: "John Brown" <johnbrown_chambers@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 02:57:18 +0200
Subject: SEEKING FOR INVESTMENT

PLEASE REPLY ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW)





Dear Sir,

Please do not be upset for receiving my email, sorry for that i know we have
not meet before, is a benefited deal I am Barrister Enno, the confidant of
the ex-president of the Liberia (Mr. president Charles Taylor of Liberia)
who was removed from power as you may know. His is now right in Nigeria with
his family as refugee seeker, He has secretly in formed me to contact you
and to liase with you to invest the sum of $50 000,000 (fifity Million
Dollars) which he deposited in a bank during his tenure.

Now the procedures are that you will be given the contact of the bank in
Europe so that you will contact them to open an account online where the
money will be transferred into from his account since he cannot come out in
the open to use this money. After you open this account, I will order the
bank in a written form to transfer the money into your own account after
which you can then transfer it to some other account in your place for
sharing.

Upon request by you I will send to you the certificate of deposit of this
amount for your assurance. We are willing to concede up to 25% of the total
sum to you for all the anticipated help from you hoping that it will cover
all your expenditures before and after the
transaction.

However, we will desire that you will help us invest our share till they
will be free to meet you up in your country for further talks and sharing,
Please if this proposal is Ok by you, so that i can give you all
information’s. Please write me back via this address
(johnbrown_chambers@yahoo.co.uk )

Best Regards,
Barrister. Enno.
(on behalf of Charles Taylor ex-president)

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