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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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "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.
  • anita_info12005@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?ANITA=20TAYLOR?= <anita_info12005@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: anitataylor@ny.com
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:34:14 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: PLEASE HELP


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: anita_info12005@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Sir,


Greetings!,


My name is Mrs. Anita Taylor, the wife of former Liberian President, Mr Charles Taylor, who bowed to the pressure from the international community to leave office as Liberian President in September, 2003. My husband together with our four children were granted political asylum by the government of Nigeria after my husband stepped down as the President of Liberia to allow the restoration of peace in liberia, so presently, we live here in the city of Calabar in Nigeria.

During my husband seven years rule as President of Liberia, he made a lot of money from the sell of Diamonds in Liberia and a neighboring country Sierre Leone which he deposited in several banks in Europe and America, most of these funds were deposited in my name.


However, due to the indictment of my husband by the United Nations war crimes tribunal sitting in Sierra Leone, the International Police have issued an arrest warrant on my husband and American government has given mandate to Nigerian government to hand over my husband to the UN war crimes tribunal in Sierre Leone for trial. For this reason, United States government has frozen all our accounts in America and that which they discovered in Europe including the accounts in my name, except one with one of the Apex security companies overseas where I deposited Thirty Million US Dollars,( US$30,000.000.00 Million ). In other to safe guide this funds, a foreign partner's name must be used to avoid United States government knowing about the money and subsequently freezing it as they did to over 2 billion dollars belonging to my husband. Therefore, I want you to assist me to receive this money in your care for security reasons. If you accept to assist receive this money in your in !
your care, I will reward you with 25% of the fund. In addition, I will allow your company to use my own 75% share as a working capital for a period of three years at small interest which both of us will agree on later.

As soon as I have your consent to be indicated by your ability to forward your direct contact telephone and fax numbers including your full contact information, I will authorize our family lawyer to process the necessary documents that will prepare you as the beneficiary of the money so as to enable you secure the release of same for our mutual benefits.


I await your reply. May God bless you and your family?



Mrs. Anita Taylor



- ANITA TAYLOR

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