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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:
  • "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: "MS VICTORIA MENDE" <vicmende@myway.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: vicmende21@myway.com
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:00:36 +0200
Subject: GOOD NEWS WE MEET

Dear it gives me pleasure to make your aquaintance and wish to tell you all about my wish I would like you to do same too, I am originally from Liberia and living currently in senegal with my brother and our parents died during the war in my country but before then our father deposited some amount of money in a bank which worth 8.9 million US dollars and as a result of this war we could not finish our schoolling and which we'd wishes to finish at any day things get better, we're staying in a camp here in Dakar with a reverend whom we told about all our plight which made him to give me access to internet, and I write through his computer, please we are asking for your help/asistance to claim this money from the bank because according to our age and refugee status I am not legible to apply for this money , I am still 21 years old lady and my brother is 19, perhaps we do not let anybody to know about this until this week when we had concluded our thinking and also make a decision to retr
ive the fund, so it's quite very unfortunate about the pains that I my brother is facing while having such amount in bank which we are the next of kin ,we now decide to contact you and to confide in you our secret with belief that you will help us get the money out of the bank which we will compensate you as we're confiding in you our secret with the strong faith that you will not betray me and my brother to run away with the money once you claim it. Just write to the bank and tell them that you want to claim it on my behalf. would be waiting for your fruitful responce for future correpondence .You will take 25% percent of the whole money while 5 percent goes for the expenses towards claiming this money ,please I and my brother is confiding in you in desperation therefore do not let another person know about this money,only contact the bank for they will release of the money into your account Please contact me today for further information. at (vicmende@walla.com <mailto:vicmende0walla.com>) BEST REGARDS, VICTORIA MENDE.

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