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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:
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • annaxkamkam5@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Anna" <anna07sow@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: annaxkamkam5@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:48:49 +0000
Subject: Dearest one.

Hello,
First of all I will like to thank you for given your attention to read
my mail and for your interest,I pray that my plan with you shall be of
good success. Well I will go ahead to explain little about myself,

I am miss Anna kamkam,I am from Monrovia in Liberia in west africa. This
crisis in my country so I ran away to another country where I am
contacting you today.My age is just 23 I am still in school when my parent and
my only sister died,that was during the period when Mr charly our
formal president refused to step down,I am the only surviving one now left.

My father Dr Peter kamkam was one of diamond dealer in my place,he`s one
of those standing against the leadership of Mr Charly Tarloy,the set a
bomb to the house we are living and kill them but I was so lucky to be
in school then that what makes me to be alive today.

I meet with our family lawyer and find out that my father wishes me a
brighter future,he left in my possession some amount of money for my
future plan and of his direction in his WILL he made sum deposit for me
with a bank outside liberia.

The reason why I am contacting you earlier this year is to know if I
can really obtain this favour from you to go into a good plan of
investment in your own country,I no ideal of any that is the main reason why I
ask for your attention for your advise and standing behind me to invest
up to Ten million United States of American Dollars (US$10.000.000 ) in
a bank now.

If you wish to be of this assistance to me,pls do tell me more about
yourself for me to also know you better than I do now and also your words
of advise for the procedure of the transaction.I have made up my mind
concern the area of rewarding back with some percentage of the total
money as soon as the money is been transfer to your position. please
contact me with this email address annaxkamkam5@yahoo.co.uk. ) Thanks and
remain bless.
Best regards Anna,,

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