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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:
  • "your country for safe keeping" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "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.
  • t_johnson_zw@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Theresa=20Johnson?= <t_johnson_zw@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:46:22 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Urgent reply


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

Mrs.Theresa Johnson.

C/o Eglise Ouganda (Catholic church )

Liberte Sicap 59,Dakar Senegal.



Dearest,



I know this mail may come to you as a surprise.Nevertheless please

don't be,I am Mrs.Theresa Johnson,aged 59 years, the wife of Major Doncan

Johnson, Chief Security Officer and Aide-de-camp to the exiled president

Charles Taylor of Liberia.



As a result of the on-going crisis in my country, I am saddled with

problems of my ill-health(protracted diabetes and high blood pressure)

which is currently of increase in the recent time but more importantly to

me now is getting a trust worthy individual abroad to receive the sum

of US$3 million and 3.65kg of Diamond on our behalf,this,I intend to

invest in your country.



Due to the present crisis in my home city Monrovia, I managed to sneak

away with my son and my only daughter out from Monrovia to

Dakar-Senegal for our safety.



We sneaked into Dakar-Senegal through the land boarder by the help of

some government militia group who guarded our safe exit from Liberia.

After the killing of my husband by the rebels, we decided to come down

here to Dakar senegal to take a temporal assylum and also to secure the

this deposit as was made here by my late husband also, to further look

for a trust worthy person abroad to receive these deposit upon it's

release.My late husband made this deposit before he was eventually killed

in my presence by the heartless rebels when they invaded our residence

in Monrovia.



I feel confident therefore to introduce myself to you based on this

problem and our present condition of stay here since all our foreign

contacts and connections got lost as result of the crisis which lead to the

killing of my late husband and the destruction of all his other

properties and estates by the rebels.I am desperately in need to move and

re-locate this deposit to your country for safe keeping as this is the only

wealth remaining for the future survival and well being of me and my

family out of all my late husbands estates/properties.



For your assistance, a negotiable percentage shall be discussed with

you as I receive your positive response on this issue,our lives are in

danger due to our present state of insecurity and condition of our stay

here.I plead and look foward for your help.


Please endavour to email me back for further clarifications on this

issue. God bless you as you respond to my plea for assistance.



Sincerely yours.



Mrs Theresa Johnson.



- Theresa Johnson

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