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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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• 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)
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Fraud email example:

From: mrs hylda <mrs_hylda@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:06:36 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FAMILY ASSISTANCE( IN GOOD FAITH)


Dear friend,

I pray that this mail will reach you in good faith and that you will give it urgent attention and handle it with secrecy because my life and that of my only surviving son William is in great danger.

My name is mrs Hylda Komson. I am the widow of late Dr Stephen.P. Komson from the district of Monrovia in Liberia.I got your contact from my husbands business file. My husband was until his assasination a very successful Gold and Diamond marchant. He was also deeply involved in the politics and civil war of Liberia.

I am facing very difficult financial problems, gross intimidation and threat from my husband's extended family and in particular the rebel leader who is my husband's close relative. They have taken over all my husband's businesses estates, properties and even his local bank accounts.

I am painfully subjected to sleep and make sex with the rebel leader before I can get some food and money to feed my son. In fact, my children James and Mary were murdered in cold blood, so I had to ask my only surviving son William to escape to Lome, the republic of Togo where he is residing under hiding.

The reason why I am contacting you is to seek your personal help, support and assistance for my son William who is only 17 years to handle his father's only money deposit that we still have access to. My husband has a cash payment deposit of US$ 19.4 million with Security Company out side Africa which was to be transferred to his overseas associate's bank account.

I want you to come in as my husband's foreign associate and provide a new bank account to transfer this money urgently. If the money is transferred, you will arrange and move out William to your country and get him a school to further his education.

I sincerely propose to offer you 30% of the money in compensation. Another 5% will be mapped out to cover all your expenditures, while the balance of 65% must be retained by you for my son. You can invest not more than 55% of my son's 65% in any profitable business of your choice with 40% of the profit retained for him.

I am trusting you as a good believing God that you will not betray my confidence in you. Thank you so much and may God bless you and your dear family always.

Yours sincerely
Mrs Hylda Komson



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